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Interesting Facts
Description
Family Compositae
The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
A herb or subshrub
of high Andean vegetation, collected at an elevational
range
of 3,000–3,500 m.
[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.5 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Genus:
Xenophyllum
()
- Specific epithet:
acerosum
- (Cuatrec.) V.A.Funk
- Botanical name: - Xenophyllum acerosum (Cuatrec.) V.A.Funk
- Specific epithet:
acerosum
- (Cuatrec.) V.A.Funk
- Genus:
Xenophyllum
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Werneria acerosa Cuatrec.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:56E9AECF-48E0-489F-A741-55EC265764A1
Last scrutiny: 17-Aug-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Xenophyllum
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Further Reading
- IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
- Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endmicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
- Valencia, R., Pitman, N., Len-Ynez, S. and Jrgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endmicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Quito.
Notes
Contributors
- GCC: Global Compositae Checklist. Release date: November 18, 2009
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Montfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. Xenophyllum acerosum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7151595
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-8319
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:997479-1
- IUCN ID: 249087
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1027375
Footnotes
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. Xenophyllum acerosum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]
