Plucheeae

Tribe of flowering plants

Plucheeae

Pluchea odorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Plucheeae Benth. A. Anderb. (1989)
Type genus
Pluchea Cass.
Genera
See text

Plucheeae, sometimes also spelt as Plucheae, is a tribe of flowering plants in the subfamily Asteroideae.

Genera

This tribe was created by A. Anderberg (1989) following his reclassification of the Inuleae (Cass.) tribe.^[1] It includes the following genera:^[2]

Cylindrocline
Pluchea
Porphyrostemma
Pterocaulon
Rhodogeron
Sachsia
Sphaeranthus
Streptoglossa

Anderberg's molecular data from 2005 does not support the monophyly of a tribe defined in this way. His 2005 classification does not recognize Plucheeae, but includes it in the Inuleae. This classification does include a subtribe Plucheinae in the Inuleae, but this subtribe contains a number of species from the former Inuleae as well as all the species which had been in Plucheeae.^[3]

Bibliography

Anderberg, A. A. 1989: Phylogeny and reclassification of the tribe Inuleae (Asteraceae). − Can. J. Bot. 67: 2277−2296.
— 1991: Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Plucheae. – Pl. Syst. Evol. 176: 145−177.

References

^ Eldenäs, Pia; Källersjö, Mari; Anderberg, Arne A. (October 1999). "Phylogenetic Placement and Circumscription of Tribes Inuleae s. str. and Plucheeae (Asteraceae): Evidence from Sequences of Chloroplast Gene ndhF". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 13 (1): 50–58. Bibcode:1999MolPE..13...50E. doi:10.1006/mpev.1999.0635. PMID 10508538.
^ Asteroideae - Taxonomy
^ Anderberg, A (2005), "Evolutionary relationships in the Asteraceae tribe Inuleae (incl. Plucheeae) evidenced by DNA sequences of F; with notes on the systematic positions of some aberrant genera", Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 5 (2): 135–146, Bibcode:2005ODivE...5..135A, doi:10.1016/j.ode.2004.10.015