Helenieae is a tribe of the
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
family
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
. The
type genus
In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...
is ''
Helenium
''Helenium'' is a genus of annuals and herbaceous perennial plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas.
They bear yellow or orange daisy-like composite flowers. A number of these species (particularly ''Helenium autumnale'') have ...
'', but the best known members of the tribe are the ''
Gaillardia''. Helenieae are usually placed in their own tribe, but some authors include this and several other tribes as subtribes within a broader definition of the tribe
Heliantheae
The Heliantheae (sometimes called the sunflower tribe) are the third-largest tribe in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). With some 190 genera and nearly 2500 recognized species, only the tribes Senecioneae and Astereae are larger. The name is ...
.
Subtribes and genera
Helenieae subtribes and genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database:
*Subtribe
Gaillardiinae
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Balduina''
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Gaillardia''
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Helenium
''Helenium'' is a genus of annuals and herbaceous perennial plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas.
They bear yellow or orange daisy-like composite flowers. A number of these species (particularly ''Helenium autumnale'') have ...
''
*Subtribe
Marshalliinae
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Marshallia''
*Subtribe
Plateileminae
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Plateilema''
*Subtribe
Psathyrotinae
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Pelucha''
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Psathyrotes''
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Trichoptilium''
*Subtribe
Tetraneurinae
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Amblyolepis''
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Baileya''
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Hymenoxys''
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Psilostrophe''
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Tetraneuris''
References
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Asteraceae tribes
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