Category:Asteraceae

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Asteraceae
Temporal range: 76–0 Ma
Campanian[1] – recent
Asteracea poster 3.jpg
A poster with 12 different species of Asteraceae from the subfamilies Asteroideae, Cichorioideae and Carduoideae
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Bercht. & J.Presl[2]
Type genus
Aster
Subfamilies

Asteroideae Lindley
Barnadesioideae Bremer & Jansen
Carduoideae Sweet
Cichorioideae Chevallier
Corymbioideae Panero & Funk
Famatinanthoideae S.E. Freire, Ariza & Panero
Gochnatioideae Panero & Funk
Gymnarrhenoideae Panero & Funk
Hecastocleidoideae Panero & Funk
Mutisioideae Lindley
Pertyoideae Panero & Funk
Stifftioideae Panero
Wunderlichioideae Panero & Funk

Diversity
1,911 genera
Synonyms

Compositae Giseke
Acarnaceae Link
Ambrosiaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Anthemidaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Aposeridaceae Raf.
Arctotidaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Artemisiaceae Martinov
Athanasiaceae Martinov
Calendulaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Carduaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Cassiniaceae Sch. Bip.
Cichoriaceae Juss.
Coreopsidaceae Link
Cynaraceae Spenn.
Echinopaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Eupatoriaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Helichrysaceae Link
Inulaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Lactucaceae Drude
Mutisiaceae Burnett
Partheniaceae Link
Perdiciaceae Link
Senecionaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Vernoniaceae Burmeist.

Source: GRIN[3]

Asteraceae is an economically important family, providing products such as cooking oils, lettuce, sunflower seeds, artichokes, sweetening agents, coffee substitutes and herbal teas. Several genera are of horticultural importance, including pot marigold, Calendula officinalis, Echinacea (cone flowers), various daisies, fleabane, chrysanthemums, dahlias, zinnias, and heleniums. Asteraceae are important in herbal medicine, including Grindelia, yarrow, and many others.[4] A number of species are considered invasive, including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.[5]

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Barnadesioideae: 9 genera, 93 species. South America, mainly the Andes.




Famatinanthoideae: South America, 1 genus, 1 species.




Mutisioideae: 58 genera, 750 species. South America.



Stifftioideae: South America and Asia.



Wunderlichioideae: 8 genera, 24 species, mostly in Venezuela and Guyana




Gochnatioideae: 4 or 5 genera, 90 species.




Hecastocleidoideae: Only Hecastocleis shockleyi. Southwestern United States.




Carduoideae: 83 genera, 2,500 species. Worldwide.




Pertyoideae: 5 or 6 genera, 70 species. Asia




Gymnarrhenoideae: Two genera/species, Gymnarrhena micrantha (Northern Africa, Middle East) and Cavea tanguensis (Eastern Himalayas)



Cichorioideae: 224 genera, 3,200 species (chicory, dandelion, lettuce)




Corymbioideae: Only the genus Corymbium, with 9 species.



Asteroideae: 1,130 genera and 16,200 species. (sunchoke, sunflower, yacon)















Uses

Commercially important plants in Asteraceae include the food crops Lactuca sativa (lettuce), Cichorium (chicory), Cynara scolymus (globe artichoke), Helianthus annuus (sunflower), Smallanthus sonchifolius (yacón), Carthamus tinctorius (safflower) and Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke). Plants are used as herbs and in herbal teas and other beverages. Chamomile, for example, comes from two different species: the annual Matricaria chamomilla (German chamomile) and the perennial Chamaemelum nobile (Roman chamomile). Calendula (known as pot marigold) is grown commercially for herbal teas and potpourri. Echinacea is used as a medicinal tea. The wormwood genus Artemisia includes absinthe (A. absinthium) and tarragon (A. dracunculus). Winter tarragon (Tagetes lucida), is commonly grown and used as a tarragon substitute in climates where tarragon will not survive.

References

  1. Viviana D. Barreda, Luis Palazzesi, Maria C. Tellería, Eduardo B. Olivero, J. Ian Raine and Félix Forest (2015). "Early evolution of the angiosperm clade Asteraceae in the Cretaceous of Antarctica". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 10989–10994. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423653112. PMC 4568267. PMID 26261324.
  2. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x, retrieved 10 December 2010
  3. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). "Family: Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl, nom. cons". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
  4. "Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases". ars-grin.gov.
  5. "dandelion Taraxacum officinale". Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States. Retrieved 10 September 2012.

Acknowledgements

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