Calendulodae Su Liu & Z.H.Feng

Feng, Zhen-Hao, Huang, Zhang-Jie, Sun, Hao-Nan & Liu, Su, 2024, Meeting Necessity instead of Serendipity: Miscellaneous Nomenclatural Notes on Asteraceae, Phytotaxa 644 (2), pp. 124-134 : 126

Supertrib. Calendulodae Su Liu & Z.H.Feng , supertrib. nov.

TYPE:— Calendula Linnaeus (1753: 921) .

Included tribe (1):— Calenduleae Cassini (1819: 161) .

Description:—Herbs, shrubs, or small trees without latex. Leaves alternate or opposite. Involucre campanulate or cyathiform. Receptacle naked, glabrous. Ray corollas yellow to orange or white, pink, purple or blue; disc corollas hermaphrodite, yellow to orange or reddish, sometimes purplish-black-tipped. Sterile styles present in many taxa, anther caudate at base. Achenes large, usually hard, thickened, terete, orbicular, obovate, or heteromorphic, curved or rostrate, winged or fenestrate, sometimes with fleshy and colored exocarp. Pappus absent.