Tageteae Cass.
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, often strongly scented, lacking latex. Lvs opposite or alternate. Involucral bracts in 1-2 rows, membranous. Capitula ⚥, homomorphic-discoid, or heteromorphic with 1 row of ligulate ray florets (often more in cvs) and actinomorphic disc florets. Receptacle without scales. Anthers not or shortly tailed. Style branches each with 2 stigmatic lines. Achenes usually homomorphic, ribbed or angled but not winged, terete; pappus of bristles, scales, awns, or 0.
16-18 genera, c. 237 spp., N., C., S. America.
The Tageteae have usually been treated as a subtribe within the Helenieae, but recent work places most of the Helenieae within the Heliantheae and accepts Tageteae as a distinct tribe [ see, Strother, J. L., in Heywood et al. (op. cit.)].
