Tageteae 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 ...

. It consists of approximately 260 species divided among 32 genera. All are found in the New World, with a center of diversity in the Mexican highlands. The

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is ''

Tagetes ''Tagetes'' () is a genusSoule, J. A. 1996. Infrageneric Systematics of Tagetes. Pgs. 435-443 in Compositae: Systematics, Proceedings of the International Compositae Conference, Kew 1994, Vol. I, Eds. D.J.N. Hind & H.J. Beentje. of annual or ...

'' (marigolds). Some authors include these plants within a more broadly defined 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

Tageteae subtribes and genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2022: *Subtribe Flaveriinae **'' Flaveria'' **'' Haploesthes'' **'' Sartwellia'' *Subtribe Jaumeinae **'' Jaumea'' *Subtribe Pectidinae **'' Adenophyllum'' **'' Arnicastrum'' **'' Bajacalia'' **'' Boeberastrum'' **'' Boeberoides'' **'' Chrysactinia'' **'' Clappia'' **'' Comaclinium'' **'' Dysodiopsis'' **'' Dyssodia'' **'' Gymnolaena'' **'' Harnackia'' **'' Hydropectis'' **'' Jamesianthus'' **'' Lescaillea'' **'' Leucactinia'' **'' Nicolletia'' **'' Oxypappus'' **'' Pectis'' **''

Porophyllum ''Porophyllum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Tageteae within the family Asteraceae known commonly as the poreleaf genus. Poreleaf plants are subshrubs native to the Americas. Their leaves often have large glands that produce aromat ...

'' **'' Pseudoclappia'' **'' Schizotrichia'' **'' Strotheria'' **''

'' **'' Thymophylla'' **'' Urbinella'' *Subtribe Varillinae **'' Coulterella'' **'' Varilla''

References

* * Asteraceae tribes {{Tageteae-stub