Tageteae

Tageteae is a tribe of the plant family Asteraceae. 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 type genus is Tagetes (marigolds).

Tageteae
Tagetes patula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Tageteae Cass.
Genera
See text

Some authors include these plants within a more broadly defined tribe Heliantheae.^[1]

Subtribes and genera

Tageteae subtribes and genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2022:^[2]

• Subtribe Flaveriinae Less.^[3]
  • Flaveria Juss.
  • Haploesthes A.Gray
  • Sartwellia A.Gray
• Subtribe Jaumeinae Benth. & Hook.f.^[4]
  • Jaumea Pers.
• Subtribe Pectidinae Less.^[5]
  • Adenophyllum Pers.
  • Arnicastrum Greenm.
  • Bajacalia Loockerman, B.L.Turner & R.K.Jansen
  • Boeberastrum (A.Gray) Rydb.
  • Boeberoides (DC.) Strother
  • Chrysactinia A.Gray
  • Clappia A.Gray
  • Comaclinium Scheidw. & Planch.
  • Dysodiopsis (A.Gray) Rydb.
  • Dyssodia Cav.
  • Gymnolaena (DC.) Rydb.
  • Harnackia Urb.
  • Hydropectis Rydb.
  • Jamesianthus S.F.Blake & Sherff
  • Lescaillea Griseb.
  • Leucactinia Rydb.
  • Nicolletia A.Gray
  • Oxypappus Benth.
  • Pectis L.
  • Porophyllum Guett.
  • Pseudoclappia Rydb.
  • Schizotrichia Benth.
  • Strotheria B.L.Turner
  • Tagetes L.
  • Thymophylla Lag.
  • Urbinella Greenm.
• Subtribe Varillinae B.L.Turner & A.M.Powell^[6]
  • Coulterella Vasey & Rose
  • Varilla A.Gray