Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Compositae
Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Compositae
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10.2307/2422084
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1955-01-01
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CRONQUIST, ARTHUR
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CRONQUIST, ARTHUR
The ancestral prototype of the Compositae is considered to have been an opposite-leaved herb, with few, many-flowered heads, leafy, several-seriate involucre, chaffy receptacle, pistillate, fertile, yellow rays, perfect, yellow disk-flowers with the midvein of the lobes developed, a chaffy pappus of 5 members, connate, tail-less anthers, and without well differentiated stigmatic lines on the style-branches. No presently existing genus combines all these features, but if such a plant existed it would be placed in the Heliantheae, which are considered ancestral to the other 11 tribes. The Helenieae are an artificial assemblage of several subtribes of the Heliantheae which have separately lost the receptacular chaff. The evolutionary tendencies operating in the inflorescence of the Compositae can mostly be grouped under the headings of aggregation and reduction. These represent merely a continuation of the trends which led to the development of the family. The Compositae are a wholly natural group, probably eventually related to the Rubiales, although the evidence of relationship is not conclusive. The resemblance between the Compositae and Cam-panulaceae is probably fortuitous. || ABSTRACT AUTHORS: Arthur Cronquist