''Rhaponticoides'' is a genus of flowering plants in the 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 ...
, found in northern Africa, southern and eastern Europe, and western Asia as far east as Mongolia. They were resurrected from ''
Centaurea''.
In the 20th century the genus ''
Centaurea'' was
paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
, because it was based on a
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
,
''C. centaurium'', which was less related to the vast majority of other ''Centaurea'' than to species which were classified as belonging to other genera. In 2001
Werner Greuter
Werner Rodolfo Greuter, (born February 27, 1938) in Genoa, Italy, as a Swiss national, is a botanist. He is the chair of the Editorial Committee for the ''International Code of Botanical Nomenclature'' (''ICBN'') - the ''Tokyo Code'' (1994) and ...
solved this by moving the ''C. centaurium'' and the related species in the former
subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''Centaurea'' to an old, resurrected genus: ''Rhaponticoides'', he
conserved the name ''Centaurea'' for the majority of the other species, and electing
''C. paniculata'' to serve as the new type species.
Species
Currently accepted species include:
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Rhaponticoides africana''
(Lam.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides alpina''
(L.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
*''
Rhaponticoides amasiensis''
(Bornm.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
*''
Rhaponticoides amplifolia''
(Boiss. & Heldr.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides aytachii''
Bagci, Dogu & Dinç
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Rhaponticoides bachtiarica''
(Boiss. & Hausskn.) L.Martins
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Rhaponticoides calabrica''
Puntillo & Peruzzi
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Rhaponticoides centaurium''
(L.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
*''
Rhaponticoides dschungarica''
(C.Shih) L.Martins
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Rhaponticoides eriosiphon''
(Emb. & Maire) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides fraylensis''
(Nyman) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides gokceoglui''
Çinbilgel, Eren & H.Duman
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Rhaponticoides hajastana''
(Tzvelev) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides hierroi''
Eren
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Rhaponticoides iconiensis''
(Hub.-Mor.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides kasakorum''
(Iljin) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides linaresii''
(Lázaro Ibiza) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides mykalea''
(Hub.-Mor.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides pythiae''
(Azn. & Bornm.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides razdorskyi''
(Karjagin ex Sosn.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides ruthenica''
(Lam.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides taliewii''
(Kleopow) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
*''
Rhaponticoides tamanianae
''Rhaponticoides'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, found in northern Africa, southern and eastern Europe, and western Asia as far east as Mongolia. They were resurrected from ''Centaurea''.
In the 20th century the genus ...
''
(M.V.Agab.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
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Rhaponticoides wagenitziana''
(Bancheva & Kit Tan) M.V.Agab. & Greuter
References
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Cardueae
Asteraceae genera