A thorough morphological circumscription of the tribe Mutisieae (Asteraceae) was established in 1977 by Angel L. Cabrera (1908–1999), who made fundamental worldwide contributions to the taxonomy of the family Asteraceae. The advance of molecular phylogenetic studies resulted in portrayals of relationships that have impacted the classification of the whole family and particularly of the Mutisieae. The publication of the book Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae in 2009, with the collaboration of the main worldwide specialists in the family, represented another fundamental milestone in the classification of the tribe. Mutisieae, which was previously thought to be nested far up in the phylogenetic tree of the family, is now known to be a basal grade, becoming a focus of attention for synantherologists. Traditional Mutisieae, or Mutisieae sensu Cabrera, is now split into numerous new subfamilies, tribes and subtribes. As a result of these changes, genera within the tribe have been reduced from 89 to 48 through new synonymisations, transfers to other tribes, and partly offset by description of 23 new genera. The remaining genera of Mutisieae sensu Cabrera have been placed in tribes of different subfamilies. A synthesis of these changes is presented in tables, in an illustrated key, and in a synopsis of the subfamilies with keys to tribes within the subfamilies.

1977年，天使L.卡布雷拉（1908–1999）建立了Mutisieae（菊科）部落的彻底形态学界限，他为菊科的分类学做出了世界性的贡献。分子系统学研究的进展导致了对关系的刻画，这种关系影响了整个家庭的分类，尤其是对Mutisieae的分类。菊科的系统学，进化论和生物地理学书籍的出版2009年，在该家族主要全球专家的合作下，这代表了部落分类的另一个基本里程碑。Mutisieae以前被认为嵌套在该家族的系统发育树中，现在被认为是基础等级，已成为合成生物学家关注的焦点。传统的Mutisieae或Mutisieae sensu Cabrera现在被分为许多新的亚家族，部落和亚部落。由于这些变化，部落中的属通过新的同义词从89个减少到48个，转移到其他部落，并被23个新属的描述部分抵消。苦参科的剩余属卡布雷拉已被安置在不同亚族的部落中。在表中，说明的键以及子家族与子家族中部落的键的概要中，提供了这些变化的综合信息。