The basket bloom plants or (Asteraceae, in former times Compositae mentioned) are the largest family of the order of the aster-well-behaved (Asterales) within the Bedecktsamer (Magnoliophyta). For the plants of this family head or bloom conditions (Pseudanthien) are typical, in those (usually) innumerable, (usually) small single flowers are summarized. At the edge of the arranged tongue blooms often it strengthens the impression that it concerns with the bloom conditions only one bloom.

The family has about 1,528 kinds with approximately 22,750 kinds and is world-wide in all climate zones represented. In Europe it belongs to the species-richest plant families.

Description

Krautige kinds outweigh, but there are also holzige. The sheets are simply, mostly are serrated or even divided rarely them. There is never present.

By the bloom condition form the German name are derived and earlier latin name Compositae (= "building up "). The bloom condition axle is kegelig or flattened. The blooms are the to a tube grew together. The are partial or reduced, with many Taxa are more rarely to a membranous seam reshuffled completely them to a characteristic hair ring or. This thing is called Pappus. The Fruchtknoten are under constant. The fruit is a special form of a nut, the

Frequently there are tube blooms and zygomorphe tongue blooms (depending upon Unterfamilie).

Systematics

After new phylogenetischen realizations now eleven Unterfamilien were introduced:

• Barnadesioideae: With 9 kinds and 94 usually holzigen kinds. With a spreading only in South America, particularly in the Anden. The is zweilippig (lip or tongue) (a lip/a tongue from 4 the other one is formed from a Kronblatt.)
• Stifftia group: With Taxa in South America and Asia.
• Mutisioideae: With 58 kinds and 750 kinds in South America. The is zweilippig (lip or tongue) (a lip/a tongue from two, the other one is formed from three
• Gochnatioideae: With four to five kinds 90 kinds.
• Hecastocleioideae: It is a monotypical Taxon the kind:
  • Hecastocleis has only a kind, in the southwest USA.
• Carduoideae: With 83 kinds and 2,500 kinds, with world-wide spreading, most kinds in the Northern Hemisphere. There is only tube blooms available.
• Pertyoideae: With five to six kinds and 70 kinds. The is deeply, unequally divided.
• Gymnarrhenoideae: With only one kind and one to six kind (EN), with a spreading from North Africa into the Near East.
• Cichorioideae: With 224 kinds and 3,200 kinds, with a world-wide spreading. The bloom conditions consist only of tongue blooms. The tongue is formed from five Kronzipfeln.
• Corymbioideae: With only one kind and seven kinds, in South Africa.
• Asteroideae: With 1.135 kinds and 16,200 kinds, with world-wide spreading. Beside tube blooms tongue blooms are often present at the edge of the bloom conditions. The tongue blooms have three Kronzipfel.

For the associated kinds see the individual Unterfamilien.

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