Platycarpha

Platycarpha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
  • Cynara glomerata Thunb. (1800) (basionym)
  • Platycarpha calvescens Gand.
  • Platycarpha ecklonis Gand.
  • Stobaea glomerata (Thunb.) Spreng.

Platycarpha is a genus of South African plants within the family Asteraceae. 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". The name was first used by Christian Friedrich Lessing in 1831. The type species is Platycarpha glomerata. This species had been named Cynara glomerata by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1800, and was moved to Platycarpha by A.P. de Candolle in 1836 in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.

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

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" Linnaea 6:688. (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". Taxon 53(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