Zaleya

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Zaleya
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Zaleya decandra
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Aizoaceae
Subfamily: Sesuvioideae
Genus: Zaleya
Burm.f.[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Rocama Forssk.
  • Zallia Roxb.

Zaleya is a genus of flowering plants in the iceplant family Aizoaceae, found in Cape Verde, Africa, Madagascar, Réunion, Socotra, West Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Australia.[3][2]

Species[]

Currently accepted species include:[2]

  • (Cordem.) H.E.K.Hartmann
  • (L.) Burm.f.
  • (Melville) H.Eichler
  • (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) N.C.Nair
  • Zaleya pentandra (L.) C.Jeffrey
  • (Melville) Bhandari

References[]

  1. ^ Fl. Indica: 110 (1768)
  2. ^ a b c "Zaleya Burm.f." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  3. ^ Xu, Han (2019). "The complete chloroplast genome of newly alien medicinal and toxic species, Zaleya pentandra (L.) C.Jeffrey (Aizoaceae), in China". Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 4 (2): 3412–3413. doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1674709. PMC 7707379. PMID 33366017. S2CID 208592601.
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