Biology:Millerieae

Short description: Tribe of flowering plants

Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius)

Espeletia pycnophylla in Ecuador.

Millerieae is a tribe of flowering plants belonging to the Asteroideae subfamily.^[1] Of all the genera, only Galinsoga, Guizotia, and Sigesbeckia have species native to the Old World.

Subtribes and genera

Millerieae subtribes and genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2022:^[2]

Subtribe Desmanthodiinae H.Rob.^[3]
- Desmanthodium Benth.
Subtribe Dyscritothamninae Panero^[4]
- Dyscritothamnus B.L.Rob.
Subtribe Espeletiinae Cuatrec.^[5]
- Espeletia Mutis ex Humb. & Bonpl.
- Ichthyothere Mart.
- Smallanthus Mack.
- Tamananthus V.M.Badillo
Subtribe Galinsoginae Benth. & Hook.f.^[6]
- Alepidocline S.F.Blake
- Alloispermum Willd.
- Aphanactis Wedd.
- Bebbia (Benth.) Greene
- Cymophora B.L.Rob.
- Faxonia Brandegee
- Freya V.M.Badillo
- Galinsoga Ruiz & Pav.
- Oteiza La Llave
- Sabazia Cass.
- Schistocarpha Less.
- Selloa Kunth
- Tridax L.
Subtribe Guardiolinae H.Rob.^[7]
- Guardiola Cerv. ex Humb. & Bonpl.
Subtribe Jaegeriinae Panero^[8]
- Jaegeria Kunth
Subtribe Melampodiinae Less.^[9]
- Acanthospermum Schrank
- Lecocarpus Decne.
- Melampodium L.
Subtribe Milleriinae Benth. & Hook.f.^[10]
- Axiniphyllum Benth.
- Guizotia Cass.
- Micractis DC.
- Milleria Houst. ex L.
- Rumfordia DC.
- Sigesbeckia L.
- Stachycephalum Sch.Bip. ex Benth.
- Trigonospermum Less.
- Zandera D.L.Schulz
Subtribe incertae sedis^[2]
- Tetragonotheca Dill. ex L.

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