Gochnatioideae

Gochnatioideae
Gochnatia oligocephala
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Gochnatioideae
(Benth. & Hook.f.) Panero & V.A.Funk
Tribe: Gochnatieae
Panero & V.A.Funk
Genera[1]

The Gochnatioideae are a subfamily of the aster family, Asteraceae. It contains the single tribe Gochnatieae[2] of six genera,[3][4] with a total of about 80[4] to 90[3] species. They are native to the Americas from the southern United States to Argentina, including the Caribbean, and Cuba in particular.[5]

These are trees, shrubs, subshrubs, and perennial herbs. They have alternately arranged leaves and some have basal rosettes. The inflorescence is a solitary flower head or a few or many. Some only have disc florets, and some also have ray florets. The heads are small, with just a few florets, or large, with hundreds. They are usually white to orange, but some species have pink or purple florets. The disc florets are tubular with deep lobes at the tips.[5]

Genera include:[3]

  1. ^ "Gochnatieae (Benth. & Hook.f.) Panero & V.A.Funk". Global Compositae Database. Compositae Working Group (CWG). Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  2. ^ Panero, J. L. and V. A. Funk. (2008). The value of sampling anomalous taxa in phylogenetic studies: major clades of the Asteraceae revealed. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2), 757-82.
  3. ^ a b c Tellería, M. C., et al. (2013). Pollen morphology and its taxonomic significance in the tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae, Gochnatioideae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 299(5), 935-48.
  4. ^ a b Moreira-Muñoz, A. and M. Muñoz-Schick. (2007). Classification, diversity, and distribution of Chilean Asteraceae: implications for biogeography and conservation. Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine Diversity and Distributions 13(6), 818-28.
  5. ^ a b Funk, V. A., et al. Classification of Compositae. Archived 2016-04-14 at the Wayback Machine In: Funk, V. A., et al (eds.) Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna: IAPT. 2009. Pp. 171-89.
  6. ^ Roque, N. and Sancho, G. (2020), Vickia, a new genus of tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae). Taxon, 69: 668-678. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12283