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Carduoideae

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Carduoideae is the thistle subfamily of the Asteraceae, or sunflower family, of flowering plants. It comprises a number of tribes in various circumscriptions of the family, in addition to the Cardueae.

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  1. PhylumTracheophyta
  2. ClassMagnoliopsida
  3. OrderAsterales
  4. FamilyCompositae

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Carduoideae is the thistle subfamily of the Asteraceae, or sunflower family, of flowering plants. It comprises a number of tribes in various circumscriptions of the family, in addition to the Cardueae.

Takhtajan, according to Reveal, includes 11 tribes in addition to the Cardueae: the Arctotideae, the Barnadesieae, the Carlineae, the Cichorieae, the Echinopseae, the Eremothamneae, the Gundelieae, the Liabeae, the Mutisieae, and the Vernonieae.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carduoideae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.