Plucheeae, sometimes also spelt as Plucheae, is a
tribe
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of flowering plants in the
subfamily
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Asteroideae
Asteroideae is a subfamily of the plant family Asteraceae. It contains about 70% of the species of the family. It consists of several tribes, including Astereae, Calenduleae, Eupatorieae, Gnaphalieae, Heliantheae, Senecioneae and Tageteae. ...
.
Genera
This tribe was created by A. Anderberg (1989) following his reclassification of the
Inuleae (Cass.) tribe.
It includes the following genera:
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Cylindrocline''
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Pluchea''
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Porphyrostemma''
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Pterocaulon''
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Rhodogeron''
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Sachsia''
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Sphaeranthus''
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Streptoglossa''
Anderberg's molecular data from 2005 does not support the
monophyly
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# the grouping contains its own most recent comm ...
of a tribe defined in this way. His 2005 classification does not recognize Plucheeae, but includes it in the Inuleae. This classification does include a subtribe Plucheinae in the Inuleae, but this subtribe contains a number of species from the former Inuleae as well as all the species which had been in Plucheeae.
Bibliography
*Anderberg, A. A. 1989: ''Phylogeny and reclassification of the tribe Inuleae (Asteraceae).'' − Can. J. Bot. 67: 2277−2296.
*— 1991: Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Plucheae. – Pl. Syst. Evol. 176: 145−177.
References
External links
The Pluchea tetranthera complex (Compositae, Plucheeae) from Australia
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Asteroideae
Asteraceae tribes
Historically recognized angiosperm taxa