Rhaponticoides

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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

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. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.213.2.2
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  4. ISBN 978-84-00-10273-9
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  5. ISSN 0010-0730
    . Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  6. hdl:10261/112538
    . Retrieved 25 September 2020.
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