Calligonum
Calligonum | |
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Calligonum polygonoides | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Polygonaceae |
Subfamily: | Polygonoideae |
Genus: | Calligonum L. |
Species | |
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Calligonum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with about 80 species across the Mediterranean Sea region, Asia and North America.
Description[]
Plants of the genus Calligonum are shrubs, diffusely but irregularly branched, with flexuous woody branches. Leaves are simple, opposite, nearly sessile, linear or scale-like, sometimes absent or very small, linear or filiform, distinct or united with short membranous ochreae. Flowers are bisexual, solitary or in loose axillary inflorescences. Flowers have persistent, 5-parted perianths not accrescent in fruit, and 10-18 stamens with filaments connate at the base. The ovary is tetragonous.[1][2]
Taxonomy[]
The genus Calligonum was first published by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[3] It is placed in the subfamily Polygonoideae, tribe Calligoneae, along with its sister genus, Pteropyrum.[4]
Species[]
- I.G.Borshch.
- Maassoumi & Kazempour
- (Pall.) Gürke
- Litv.
- Maire
- Godw.
- Calligonum bakuense Litv.
- Bunge
- Godw.
- Maire
- Schrenk
- Boiss.
- Bunge
- Bunge
- N.A.Ivanova ex Soskov
- Bunge
- Calligonum junceum (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Litv.
- Losinsk.
- Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika
- Calligonum leucocladum (Schrenk) Bunge
- Drobow
- I.G.Borshch.
- Drobow
- Al-Khayat
- I.G.Borshch.
- Turcz.
- Bunge
- Calligonum polygonoides L.
- Bunge
- Korovin
- Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika
- (Litv.) Litv.
- Maassoumi & Batooli
- B.R.Pan & K.M.Shen
- Jaub. & Spach
- Z.M.Mao
- Litv.
- Pavlov
References[]
- ^ "Flora of Pakistan". Efloras.org. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
- ^ "Flora of China". Efloras.org. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
- ^ "Plant Name Details for Calligonum L." The International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^ Schuster, Tanja M.; Reveal, James L.; Bayly, Michael J. & Kron, Kathleen A. (2015), "An updated molecular phylogeny of Polygonoideae (Polygonaceae): Relationships of Oxygonum, Pteroxygonum, and Rumex, and a new circumscription of Koenigia", Taxon, 64 (6): 1188–1208, doi:10.12705/646.5
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