author(s) : Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Fahem A. Ahmed, Husseiny A. H. Elgendy, Ibrahim A. El-Garf and Sayed H. Farag
description
The Compositae (Asteraceae) family is nested high in the Angiosperm phylogeny in Asterideae/Asterales.
The family contains the largest number of described, accepted, species of any plant family, ca. 24,000, with estimates of the total number reaching 30,000.
There are 1600-1700 genera distributed around the globe except for Antarctica (Funk et al., 2009).
Economically, plants of the family Compositae are of considerable importance. Some are food plants (e.g. Helianthus annuus, Lactuca sativa, Cichorium spp., Cynara scolymus) and others are drug plants (e.g. Artemisia spp., Matricaria chamomilla, Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium).
On the other hand, many are ornamentals (e.g. Aster spp., Helianthus spp.) and several are noxious weeds (e.g. Senecio spp.).
From the medical point of view, many of the plants are used in medicine and some are pharmacopoeial drugs, e.g. Artemisia cina, Calendula officinalis and Matricaria chamomilla, etc. (Trease, 1966).
Moreover, many of the plants are used in folk medicine as herbal remedies, e.g. Artemisia spp. and Achillea millefolium.
Genera Count
represented in Egypt with 85 Genera
Species
represented in egypt with 214 Species
Plants of the Compositae store mainly proteins and oils in their seeds. As a rule, the seed oils are rich in linoleic acid and contain lesser amounts of oleic and palmitic acid; linolenic and stearic acid are minor fatty acids.
The family may be designated as a group with the linoleic-rich variant of seed oils of the usual type.
It has been reported that seeds of many Compositae contain unusual fatty acids besides or replacing linoleic acid and that the chemistry of seed oils is often characteristic of taxa (Hegnauer, 1977)…
No thing reported
- Achillea
- Ageratum
- Ambrosia
- Anacyclus
- Anthemis
- Anvillea
- Artemisia
- Asteriscus
- Atractylis
- Bidens
- Blainvillea
- Calendula
- Carduncellus
- Carduus
- Carlina
- Carthamus
- Centaurea
- Ceruana
- Chamaemelum
- Chiliadenus
- Chlamydophora
- Cichorium
- Cnicus
- Conyza
- Cotula
- Crepis
- Crupina
- Cynara
- Dicoma
- Dittrichia
- Doellia
- Echinops
- Eclipta
- Ethulia
- Felicia
- Filago
- Flaveria
- Galinsoga
- Garhadiolus
- Geigeria
- Geropogon
- Glebionis
- Gnaphalium
- Grangea
- Gundelia
- Gymnarrhena
- Hedypnois
- Helichrysum
- Helminthotheca
- Heteroderis
- Homognaphalium
- Hyoseris
- Ifloga
- Iphiona
- Koelpinia
- Lactuca
- Lasiopogon
- Lasiospermum
- Launaea
- Leontodon
- Leysera
- Limbarda
- Mantisalca
- Matricaria
- Nauplius
- Notobasis
- Onopordum
- Osteospermum
- Otanthus
- Pegolettia
- Phagnalon
- Picris
- Pluchea
- Pseudoconyza
- Pseudognaphalium
- pulicaria
- Reichardia
- Rhagadiolus
- Scariola
- Scolymus
location
egypt