Biology:Cousinia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Cousinia
Cousinia pterocaulos
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Carduoideae
Tribe: Cardueae
Subtribe: Arctiinae
Genus: Cousinia
Cass.
Synonyms[1]
  • Rech.f. DC.
  • Lipskyella Auchera
  • Juz. Tiarocarpus

The genus Cousinia of the tribe Cardueae is in its current circumscription one of the larger genera in the Asteraceae, with approximately 650-700 species distributed in central and western Asia.[2][1]

Many of the species in this genus were once classified in genus Arctium (the burdocks).

Species

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cousinia Cass.". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329745-2. Retrieved 2 September 2021. 
  2. ↑ López-Vinyallonga, Sara; Romaschenko, Kostyantyn; Susanna, Alfonso; Garcia-Jacas, Núria (2011). "Systematics of the Arctioid group: Disentangling Arctium and Cousinia (Cardueae, Carduinae)". Taxon 60 (2): 539–554. doi:10.1002/tax.602020. 

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