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Oligochaeta (plant)

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Genus of flowering plants

Oligochaeta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Carduoideae
Tribe: Cardueae
Subtribe: Centaureinae
Genus: Oligochaeta
(DC.) K.Koch
Synonyms
  • Serratula sect. Oligochaeta DC.

Oligochaeta is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae.

Oligochaeta is native to central, southern, and southwestern Asia. They are annual plants that grow in mountain and steppe habitat.

It is part of the "Rhaponticum group" in the tribe Cardueae, along with the genera Callicephalus, Leuzea (including Acroptilon and Rhaponticum), Myopordon, and Ochrocephala. It can be distinguished from other genera by its pollen.

Species
formerly included

Oligochaeta leucosmerinx Rech.f. & Köie - Schischkinia albispina (Bunge) Iljin

References

  1. ^ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Koch, Karl Heinrich Emil. 1843. Oligochaeta (DC.) K. Koch 17: 42-43 in Latin
  3. Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1838. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 671 in Latin
  4. Tropicos, Oligochaeta (DC.) K. Koch
  5. Hidalgo, O., et al. (2008). Extreme environmental conditions and phylogenetic inheritance: systematics of Myopordon and Oligochaeta (Asteraceae, Cardueae-Centaureinae). Taxon 57(3), 769-78.
  6. Hidalgo, O., et al. (2006). Phylogeny of Rhaponticum (Asteraceae, Cardueae–Centaureinae) and related genera inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Annals of Botany 97(5), 705-14.
  7. Villodre, J. M. and N. Garcia Jacas. (2000). Pollen studies in subtribe Centaureinae (Asteraceae): the Jacea group analysed with electron microscopy. Bot. J. Linn. Soc 133, 473-84.
  8. The Plant List search for Oligochaeta
Taxon identifiers
Oligochaeta
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