Sunflower , or Helianthus ( lat. Heliantheae ) - a tribe of the Asteraceae family. Heliant - the third largest tribe of the family, it includes approximately 190 genera and 2,500 species ; only tribes Senecioneae and Astereae are ahead of her. Most genera and species are found in the Americas , especially in Mexico . There are several pantropic births.
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 Annual sunflower inflorescence | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Botanical Description
Most sunflowers are grasses and shrubs , but there are some that reach the size of small trees .
Leaves are opposite, usually covered with hairs .
Marginal flowers are false-lingual, median tubular. Pappus in the form of films or bristles, but not hairs [2] .
Childbirth
- Acanthospermum - Barbock [3]
- Acmella Rich. - Akmella
- Agnorhiza
- Ambrosia L. - Ambrosia
- Angelphytum
- Bahiopsis
- Balsamorhiza Nutt. - Balmamoriza
- Baltimora
- Berlandiera
- Blainvillea
- Borrichia
- Calanticaria
- Calyptocarpus
- Chromolepis
- Chrysogonum
- Clibadium
- Damnxanthodium
- Delilia
- Dimerostemma
- Dracopis
- Dugesia
- Echinacea Moench - Echinacea
- Eclipta
- Elaphandra
- Encelia
- Enceliopsis
- Engelmannia A. Gray ex Nutt. - Engelmannia
- Flourensia
- Geraea
- Helianthella
- Helianthus L. - Sunflower
- Heliomeris
- Heliopsis Pers. - Heliopsis
- Hidalgoa
- Hymenostephium
- Idiopappus
- Iva
- Jefea
- Kingianthus
- Lasianthaea
- Lindheimera
- Lipochaeta
- Lundellianthus
- Melanthera
- Monactis
- Montanoa
- Oblivia
- Otopappus
- Oyedaea
- Parthenium
- Perymeniopsis
- Perymenium
- Philactis
- Phoebanthus
- Podachaenium
- Podanthus
- Porophyllum Adans. - Holeworm , or Porophyllum
- Ratibida Raf. - Ratibida
- Rensonia
- Iencourtia
- Rojasianthe
- Rudbeckia L. - Rudbeckia
- Salmea
- Sanvitalia
- Scabrethia
- Scalesia
- Schizoptera
- Sclerocarpus Jacq. - Sclerocarpus
- Silphium
- Simsia Pers. - Simsia
- Sphagneticola
- Spilanthes Jacq. - spilantes
- Squamopappus
- Steiractinia
- Synedrella
- Tetrachyron
- Tetranthus
- Tilesia
- Tithonia
- Trichocoryne
- Trigonopterum
- Verbesina
- Vigethia
- Viguiera
- Wamalchitamia
- Wedelia
- Wollastonia
- Wyethia
- Xanthium L. - Gimmick
- Zaluzania
- Zexmenia
- Zinnia L. - Zinnia
Literature
- Kirpichnikov M.E. Compositae family (Asteraceae, or Compositae) // Plant Life: 6 vol. T. 5. Part 2. Flowering plants / ed. A.L. Tahtajyan. - M.: Education, 1981. - S. 462 - 476.
- Bremer, Kåre. (1994). Asteraceae: Cladistics & Classification. - Portland, OR: Timber Press. - ISBN 0-88192-275-7 .
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Theme # 3 Asterida Subclass - Asteridae (link not available)
- ↑ Russian name of the taxon - according to the following edition:
- Schroeter A.I. , Panasyuk V.A. Dictionary of Plant Names = Dictionary of Plant Names / Int. union biol. Sciences, Nat. Biologists of Russia, Vseros. instit lek. and aromatic. plants Ros. agricultural farm. academies; Ed. prof. V.A. Bykova. - Koenigstein: Koeltz Scientific Books, 1999 .-- S. 8 .-- 1033 p. - ISBN 3-87429-398-X .