Plucheeae

Plucheeae, sometimes also spelt as Plucheae, is a tribe of flowering plants in the subfamily Asteroideae.

Plucheeae
Pluchea odorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Plucheeae Benth. A. Anderb. (1989)
Type genus
Pluchea Cass.
Genera
See text

Genera

This tribe was created by A. Anderberg (1989) following his reclassification of the Inuleae (Cass.) tribe.^[1] It includes the following genera:^[2]

• Cylindrocline
• Pluchea
• Porphyrostemma
• Pterocaulon
• Rhodogeron
• Sachsia
• Sphaeranthus
• Streptoglossa

Anderberg's molecular data from 2005 does not support the monophyly of a tribe defined in this way. His 2005 classification does not recognize Plucheeae, but includes it in the Inuleae. This classification does include a subtribe Plucheinae in the Inuleae, but this subtribe contains a number of species from the former Inuleae as well as all the species which had been in Plucheeae.^[3]

Bibliography

• Anderberg, A. A. 1989: Phylogeny and reclassification of the tribe Inuleae (Asteraceae). − Can. J. Bot. 67: 2277−2296.
• — 1991: Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Plucheae. – Pl. Syst. Evol. 176: 145−177.