Platycarpha

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Platycarpha
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Platycarpheae
Genus: Platycarpha
Less.
Species:
P. glomerata
Binomial name
Platycarpha glomerata
(Thunb.) Less.
Synonyms [1]
  • Cynara glomerataThunb. (1800) (basionym)
  • Platycarpha calvescensGand.
  • Platycarpha ecklonisGand.
  • Stobaea glomerata(Thunb.) Spreng.

Platycarpha is a genus of South African plants within the family Asteraceae. [2] [3] It contains a single species, Platycarpha glomerata, which is native to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

The name Platycarpha is derived from two Greek words, platys "broad" and karphos "a chip of straw or wood, a scale, a dry stalk". [4] The name was first used by Christian Friedrich Lessing in 1831. [5] The type species is Platycarpha glomerata. [6] This species had been named Cynara glomerata by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1800, [7] and was moved to Platycarpha by A.P. de Candolle in 1836 in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis . [8]

The genus formerly contained three species. Studies suggested splitting Platycarpha into two genera, Platycarpha and Platycarphella , with two species placed in Platycarphella. [9] [10] [11] The systematic position of Platycarpha has long been regarded with uncertainty. Most authors have placed it in the tribe Arctotideae [10] until molecular phylogenetic studies showed it to be closer to Vernonieae. [12] In 2009, the new tribe Platycarpheae was established for Platycarpha and Platycarphella. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Platycarpha glomerata (Thunb.) Less". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Platycarpha Less.
  3. ↑ Lessing, Christian Friedrich. 1831. Linnaea 6: 688. in Latin
  4. ↑ Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. volume III, page 2098. CRC Press: Baton Rouge, New York, London, Washington DC. ISBN   978-0-8493-2673-8 (vol. III). (see External links below).
  5. ↑ Christian Friedrich Lessing. 1831. "De Synanthereis. Dissertatis quarta, auctore Chr. Fr. Lessing" Linnaea6:688. (see External links below).
  6. ↑ Platycarpha In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
  7. ↑ Carl Peter Thunberg. 1800. Prodromus Plantarum Capensium volume 2: 141. (see External links below).
  8. ↑ Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5:71. (see External links below).
  9. ↑ Funk, Vicki A.; Robinson, Harold E. (2009). "A new tribe Platycarpheae and a new genus Platycarphella in the Cichorioideae (Compositae or Asteraceae)". Compositae Newsletter. 47: 24–27. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  10. 1 2 Per Ola Karis. 2007. "Arctotideae" pages 200-207. In: Klaus Kubitzki (series editor); Joachim W. Kadereit and Charles Jeffrey (volume editors). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume VIII. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN   978-3-540-31050-1
  11. ↑ David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN   978-0-521-82071-4
  12. ↑ Vicki A. Funk, Raymund Chan, Stirling C. Keeley. 2004. "Insights into the evolution of the tribe Arctoteae (Compositae: subfamily Cichorioideae s.s.) using trnL-F, ndhF, and ITS". Taxon53(3):637-655.
  13. ↑ Vicki A. Funk, Alfonso Susanna, Tod F. Stuessy, and Randall J. Bayer. 2009. Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae. IAPT (International Association for Plant Taxonomy). ISBN   978-3-9501754-3-1
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