菊科

PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Kuo-Fang; LI, Hui-Lin

Artemisia by LING, Yeou-Ruenn & PENG, Ching-I
Astereae by SOEJIMA, Akiko & PENG, Ching-I
Blumea by LEU, Wen-Pen & PENG, Ching-I
Eupatorium by CHUNG, Shih-Wen & PENG, Ching-I
Senecioneae by PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Shih-Wen

Senecio vulgaris Credit: HAST

Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, sap sometimes milky. Leaves alternate or opposite, rarely whorled, simple or pinnately lobed or divided, estipulate. Flowers 1 to many, arranged in heads, heads solitary or variously arranged into synflorescences. Receptacle variously shaped, either glabrous, setose, or paleaceous, subtended by an involucre of one or more series of bracts (phyllaries). Florets bisexual or unisexual, occasionally neutral. Calyx represented by a pappus of diverse forms or seemingly absent. Corolla gamopetalous, tubular or discoid with 4 or 5 equal teeth or lobes or 2-5 lobes fused and elongate and forming a 2-5 toothed limb or ligule, or corolla bilabiate. Stamens 5, epipetalous, filaments distinct, anthers introrse, connate and forming a tube around style, apex usually appendaged, base often caudate or sagittate. Pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-celled; style simple, slender, usually bifid; ovule solitary, anatropous. Fruit an achene, often crowned with a setose, paleaceous, or plumose pappus. Endosperm absent.

One of the largest families of flowering plants comprising about 1,535 genera and about 23,000 species, cosmopolitan. About 84 genera and 221 species, plus 20 additional infraspecific taxa in Taiwan.

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  Tribe 4. Inuleae
  1 Involucral bracts white or yellow, scarious and petal-like.   (2) + Involucral bracts green, herbaceous or membranaceous, not petal-like.   (4)         2 (1) Central florets fertile; involucral bracts usually brown, yellowish or bright yellow.   Gnaphalium + Central florets sterile; involucral bracts bright white or sometimes rose colored at base.   (3)         3 (2) Heads in a dense headlike corymb surrounded by many wooly bracteate leaves; pappus connate at base into a ring.   Leontopodium + Heads not surrounded by bracteate leaves; pappus free at base.   Anaphalis         4 (1) Heads minute, secondarily aggregated into globose heads 5-7 mm across.   Sphaeranthus + Heads axillary, corymbose, racemose or paniculate.   (5)         5 (4) Pappus wanting.   (6) + Pappus setaceous.   (7)         6 (5) Plants erect, branched apically; involucre subtended by 2-5 bracteate leaves; beak of achenes short, glandular.   Carpesium + Plants ascending-prostrate, much branched at base; involucre not subtended by bracteate leaves; achenes truncate at apex.   Epaltes         7 (5) Stems distinctly winged; heads nodding or erect.   (8) + Leaves not decurrent, stems not winged; heads erect.   (9)         8 (7) Leaves narrowly oblong; heads often nodding; involucre ovoid, bracts recurvate at tips.   Laggera + Leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate; heads erect or ascending; involucre hemispheric, bracts appressed.   Pluchea (P. sagittalis)         9 (7) Heads usually in panicles; outer involucral bracts herbaceous, linear to linear-oblong; corolla yellow.   Blumea + Heads in corymbs; outer involucral bracts rather coriaceous, broadly ovate; corolla violet.   Pluchea
  List of Keys KEY TO TRIBES Tribe 1. Vernonieae Tribe 2. Eupatorieae Tribe 3. Astereae Tribe 4. Inuleae Tribe 5. Heliantheae Tribe 7. Anthemideae Tribe 8. Senecioneae Tribe 9. Cardueae Tribe 10. Mutisieae Tribe 11. Lactuceae

• List of lower taxa