Plucheeae, sometimes also spelt as Plucheae, is a tribe of flowering plants in the subfamily Asteroideae.
Genera This tribe was created by A. Anderberg (1989) following his reclassification of the Inuleae (Cass.) tribe. It includes the following genera:Asteroideae - Taxonomy Cylindrocline Pluchea Porphyrostemma Pterocaulon Rhodogeron Sachsia Sphaeranthus Streptoglossa
Anderberg's molecular data from 2005 does not support the monophyly of a tribe defined in this way. His 2005 classification does not recognize Plucheeae, but includes it in the Inuleae. This classification does include a subtribe Plucheinae in the Inuleae, but this subtribe contains a number of species from the former Inuleae as well as all the species which had been in Plucheeae.
Bibliography Anderberg, A. A. 1989: Phylogeny and reclassification of the tribe Inuleae (Asteraceae). − Can. J. Bot. 67: 2277−2296. — 1991: Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Plucheae. – Pl. Syst. Evol. 176: 145−177.
References
External links The Pluchea tetranthera complex (Compositae, Plucheeae) from Australia