Omalotheca

Omalotheca sylvatica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Asteroideae
Tribus: Gnaphalieae
Subtribus: Gnaphaliinae
Genus: Omalotheca
Species: O. caucasica – O. diminuta – O. hoppeana – O. leucopilina – O. nanchuanensis – O. norvegica – O. roeseri – O. supina – O. sylvatica – O. × traunsteineri

Source(s) of checklist:
Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Omalotheca in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 May 09. Reference page.

Name

Omalotheca Cass., Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. [F. Cuvier] 56: 218. (1828)

• Type species: Omalotheca supina Cass., Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. [F. Cuvier] 56: 218. (1828)
  

Note: Genus and this circumscription resurrected from synonymy with Gnaphalium L., Sp. Pl. 2: 850. (1753) by Urtubey et al., (2016) and so combinations under Gnaphalium are still commonly found.

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Synchaeta Kirp. in Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 9: 33 (1950)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Omalotheca Continental: Subarctic & Temp. Northern Hemisphere Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China South-Central, Chita, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Maine, Michigan, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Romania, Sakhalin, South European Russi, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vermont, West Siberia, Wisconsin, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia Introduced into: Jawa References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Cassini, A.H.G. de in G.-F.Cuvier, 1828. Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2 56: 218.

Additional references

• Bartolucci, F., Domina, G., Adorni, M., Cecchi, L., Chianese, G., Conti, F., D'Antraccoli, M., Galasso, G., Ghillani, L., Giardini, M. Guglielmone, L. 2017. Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 4. Italian Botanist 4: 43-51. DOI: 10.3897/italianbotanist.4.21693 . Reference page. 
• Nie, Z.L., Funk, V.A., Meng, Y., Deng, T., Sun, H. & Wen, J. 2016. Recent assembly of the global herbaceous flora: evidence from the paper daisies (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). New Phytologist 209(4): 1795-1806. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13740 Reference page. 
• Urtubey, E., López, A., Chemisquy, M.A., Anderberg, A.A., Baeza, C.M., Bayón, N.D., Deble, L.P., Moreira-Muñoz, A., Nesom, G.L., Alford, M.H., Salomón, L. & Freire, S.E. 2016. New circumscription of the genus Gamochaeta (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) inferred from nuclear and plastid DNA sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution 302(8): 1047–1066. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-016-1316-4 ResearchGate Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Omalotheca in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 May 09. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2023. Omalotheca. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 09 May 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2018. Omalotheca. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Nov. 14. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Omalotheca. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 14 2018.

Vernacular names

English: Arctic Cudweed

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