Platycarpha is a genus of South African plants within the family Asteraceae.[1][2]
| Platycarpha | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Vernonioideae |
| Tribe: | Platycarpheae |
| Genus: | Platycarpha Lessing |
| Type species | |
| Platycarpha glomerata[1] | |
Recent studies have suggested splitting Platycarpha into two genera, Platycarpha and Platycarphella. Further work remains to be done to resolve this.[3][4][5]
The name Platycarpha is derived from two Greek words, platys "broad" and karphos "a chip of straw or wood, a scale, a dry stalk".[6] The name was first used by Christian Friedrich Lessing in 1831.[7] The type species is Platycarpha glomerata.[8] This species had been named Cynara glomerata by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1800,[9] and was moved to Platycarpha by A.P. de Candolle in 1836 in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[10]
The systematic position of Platycarpha has long been regarded with uncertainty. Most authors have placed it in the tribe Arctotideae[4] until molecular phylogenetic studies showed it to be closer to Vernonieae.[11] In 2009, the new tribe Platycarpheae was established for Platycarpha and Platycarphella.[12]
- Species
- Platycarpha carlinoides Oliv. & Hiern- South Africa
- Platycarpha glomerata (Thunb.) Less. - South Africa
- Platycarpha parvifolia S.Moore - South Africa
References
edit- ^ a b Tropicos, Platycarpha Less.
- ^ Lessing, Christian Friedrich. 1831. Linnaea 6: 688. in Latin
- ^ Funk, Vicki A.; Robinson, Harold E. (2009). "A new tribe Platycarpheae and a new genus Platycarphella in the Cichorioideae (Compositae or Asteraceae)". Compositae Newsletter. 47: 24–27. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- ^ a b Per Ola Karis. 2007. "Arctotideae" pages 200-207. In: Klaus Kubitzki (series editor); Joachim W. Kadereit and Charles Jeffrey (volume editors). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume VIII. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 978-3-540-31050-1
- ^ David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4
- ^ Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. volume III, page 2098. CRC Press: Baton Rouge, New York, London, Washington DC. ISBN 978-0-8493-2673-8 (vol. III). (see External links below).
- ^ Christian Friedrich Lessing. 1831. "De Synanthereis. Dissertatis quarta, auctore Chr. Fr. Lessing" Linnaea 6:688. (see External links below).
- ^ Platycarpha In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
- ^ Carl Peter Thunberg. 1800. Prodromus Plantarum Capensium volume 2: 141. (see External links below).
- ^ Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5:71. (see External links below).
- ^ Vicki A. Funk, Raymund Chan, Stirling C. Keeley. 2004. "Insights into the evolution of the tribe Arctoteae (Compositae: subfamily Cichorioideae s.s.) using trnL-F, ndhF, and ITS". Taxon 53(3):637-655.
- ^ Vicki A. Funk, Alfonso Susanna, Tod F. Stuessy, and Randall J. Bayer. 2009. Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae. IAPT (International Association for Plant Taxonomy). ISBN 978-3-9501754-3-1
External links
edit- Platycarpha At:Plants of southern Africa At: PlantZAfrica.com
- CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: M-Q At: Google Books
- Platycarpha In: Linnaea volume 6
- Platycarpha At:Index Nominum Genericorum At: References At: NMNH Department of Botany At: Research and Collections At: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- Cynara In: Prodromus Plantarum Capensium volume 2
- Platycarpha In: Prodr. (DC.) volume 5