Description :

• Herbs or shrubs
• Leaves alternate or sometimes subopposite, entire, dentate, serrate or lobed to pinnatifid, sometimes clasping or ± decurrent and sometimes forming stem wings; with hairs of type A (multiseptate hairs with short cells)
• Capitula disciform
• Involucral bracts generally imbricate in several rows, chartaceous or herbaceous
• Receptacle generally flat, epaleate
• Outer florets female; corolla filiform, purple, pink, rarely yellow or whitish, 3-lobed
• Central florets bisexual or functionally male, purple or sometimes yellow or whitish, 4- or 5-lobed
• Anthers calcarate, caudate or ecaudate; endothecial tissue of elongate cells, radial; filament collar flattened or mamillose
• Style with oblong-linear, rounded style branches with hairs far down shaft below bifurcation; hairs obtuse or sometimes ± acute; stigmatic areas in 2 apically confluent lines
• Cypselas ellipsoid, turbinate or triquetrous, glabrous or hairy with straight or uncinate to anchor-shaped twin hairs, sometimes with prominent red-brown resin deposits in wall
• Pappus of barbellate, capillary bristles in 1 row or of elongated scales, generally free, sometimes forming small ring-shaped cup of scales; rarely 0

Nomenclature:

• Plucheeae
  • Anderberg: 2293 (1989)
  • Anderberg: 154 (1991)
  • Anderberg: 296 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global : 28, mainly tropical or subtropical, with some in arid areas of South America, Africa, Asia and Australia
• Southern Africa : Genera 7, species 22

References:

• ANDERBERG, A.A. 1989. Phylogeny and reclassification of the tribe Inuleae ( Asteraceae ). Canadian Journal of Botany 67
• ANDERBERG, A.A. 1991. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Plucheeae ( Asteraceae ). Plant Systematics and Evolution 176
• ANDERBERG, A.A. 1994. Tribes Inuleae , Plucheeae , Gnaphalieae . In K. Bremer, Asteraceae , cladistics and classification . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon

Resources:

• Key to Asteraceae tribes
• Key to Plucheeae genera

• Plucheeae genera: