Vittadinia

Vittadinia
Vittadinia arida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Astereae
Subtribe: Brachyscominae
Genus: Vittadinia
A.Rich.
Synonyms[1]
  • Brachycome Gaudich.
  • Erigeron section Vittadinia (A.Rich.) Baillon

Vittadinia is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.[2][3]

Taxonomy

The genus Vittadinia is attributed to the French botanist Achille Richard in 1832.[4] He described a species collected in New Zealand as Vittadinia australis, noting that although it had similarities to the genus Aster, there were sufficient differences to distinguish it. Two he considered significant were that Vittadinia has only two rows of involucral bracts and that its anthers are free and bent into a shape resembling a bayonet.[2]

Although species of Vittadinia were described from Hawaii by Asa Gray,[5] and are accepted by some sources,[1] these are now considered to belong to the genus Tetramolopium by the online Flora of the Hawaiian Islands,[6] so that Vittadinia does not occur in Hawaii.

Species

currently accepted[1][7][8]
formerly included[1]

Species formerly included in the genus Vittadinia, but now placed in Baccharis, Camptacra, Microgyne, Minuria and Tetramolopium, include:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Flann, C. (ed) (2009+). Global Compositae Checklist. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b Richard, Achille (1832). Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique 1: Essai d'un Flore de la Nouvelle-Zélande. p. 250. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  3. ^ National Herbarium of New South Wales. "Genus Vittadinia". New South Wales FloraOnline. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Retrieved 2009-11-20.
  4. ^ "IPNI Plant Name Query Results for Vittadinia". The International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2015-01-19.
  5. ^ Gray, Asa (1861). "Characters of some Compositae in the Collection of the United States South Pacific Exploring Expedition under Captain Wilkes, with Observations, &c.: §2 Tetramolopium". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5: 119–120. doi:10.2307/20021263. JSTOR 20021263. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  6. ^ a b c "Query results for Vittadinia". Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Department of Botany. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Vittadinia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
  8. ^ Atlas of Living Australia