The flowering plant order Asterales, is dominated by the sunflower or daisy family (Asteraceae).
Keywords: asteraceae; daisy; campanulaceae; evolution; compositae
Asterales (Sunflower)
Rob D Smissen, Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
Published online: March 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003736
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Figure 1. Celmisa sp. a typical Asteraceae capitulum with petal-like ray florets (white) and tube florets (yellow). Photo courtesy of Aaron Wilton.
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Figure 2. Stylidium schoenoides (a trigger plant) column poised in left flower (with anther obscured), triggered in right flower. Photo courtesy of Juliet Wege.
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| Further Reading | |
| Albach DC, Soltis PS, Soltis DE and Olmstead RG (2001) Phylogenetic analysis of Asterids based on sequences of four genes. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88: 163–212. | |
| book Bremer K (1994) Asteraceae: Cladistics and Classification. Portland, OR: Timber Press. | |
| Bremer K and Gustafsson MHG (1997) East Gondwana ancestry of the sunflower alliance of families. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 94: 9188–9190. | |
| Erbar C and Leins P (1995) Portioned pollen release and the syndromes of secondary pollen presentation in the Campanulales–Asterales-complex. Flora 190: 323–338. | |
| Gustafsson MHG and Bremer K (1995) Morphology and phylogenetic interrelationships of the Asteraceae, Calyceraceae, Campanulaceae, Goodeniaceae, and related families (Asterales). American Journal of Botany 82: 250–265. | |
| proceedings Hendry GA (1996) "Fructan and the ecology and evolution of the Compositae". In: Calgari PDS and Hind DJN (eds) Proceedings of the International Compositae Conference, Kew, 1994, vol. 2: Compositae: Biology and Utilization. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens. | |
| Wagstaff SJ and Wege J (2002) Patterns of diversification in New Zealand Stylidiaceae. American Journal of Botany 89: 865. | |
