Rhaponticoides

Rhaponticoides
Rhaponticoides ruthenica here given as Centaurea ruthenica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cardueae
Subtribe: Centaureinae
Genus: Rhaponticoides
Vaill.[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Bielzia Schur

Rhaponticoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, found in northern Africa, southern and eastern Europe, and western Asia as far east as Mongolia. They were resurrected from Centaurea.[3]

In the 20th century the genus Centaurea was paraphyletic, because it was based on a type species, C. centaurium, which was less related to the vast majority of other Centaurea than to species which were classified as belonging to other genera. In 2001 Werner Greuter solved this by moving the C. centaurium and the related species in the former subgenus Centaurea to an old, resurrected genus: Rhaponticoides, he conserved the name Centaurea for the majority of the other species, and electing C. paniculata to serve as the new type species.[4][5][6]

Species

Currently accepted species include:

References

  1. ^ Phys. Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Paris 5: 165 (1754)
  2. ^ "Rhaponticoides Vaill". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  3. ^ Negaresh, Kazem; Khoshroo, Sayed Mohammad Reza; Karamian, Roya; Joharchi, Mohammad Reza (2015). "A revision of Rhaponticoides (Asteraceae, Cardueae–Centaureinae) from Iran". Phytotaxa. 213 (2): 87. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.213.2.2.
  4. ^ Devesa Alcaraz, Juan Antonio; López Nieto, Eusebio (4 December 2014). "29. Centaurea" (PDF). Flora ibérica, Vol. XVI (in Spanish). Madrid: Real Jardín Botánico. pp. 342–345. ISBN 978-84-00-10273-9.
  5. ^ López Nieto, Eusebio; Devesa Alcaraz, Juan Antonio (December 2011). "Revisión taxonómica del complejo Centaurea alba L. (Asteraceae) en la Península Ibérica". Collectanea Botanica (in Spanish). 30: 37–52. doi:10.3989/collectbot.2011.004. ISSN 0010-0730. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  6. ^ Hilpold, A.; Garcia-Jacas, Núria; Vilatersana, R.; Susanna, Alfonso (2014). "Taxonomical and nomenclatural notes on Centaurea: A proposal of classification, a description of new sections and subsections, and a species list of the redefined section Centaurea". Collectanea Botanica. 33: e001. doi:10.3989/collectbot.2013.v33.001. hdl:10261/112538. Retrieved 25 September 2020.