Acanthophyllum

Acanthophyllum
Acanthophyllum mucronatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Subfamily: Caryophylloideae
Tribe: Caryophylleae
Genus: Acanthophyllum
Species

See text.

Acanthophyllum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. 107 species have been described and of these, only 68 are currently accepted.[1] about 60 species of Acanthophyllum C. A. Mey. (Caryophyllaceae,Caryophylloideae, Caryophylleae) spread in the Irano-Turanian area.[2]

Description

Small, shrubby perennial plants with spiny leaves. Flowers white or pink, sessile in solitary or globose heads. Spiny bracts. Calyx cylindrical, with 5 teeth. Petals 5, entire or retuse. Stamens 20. Capsule ovoid, irregularly dehiscent from base. Reniform seeds.[3]

Taxonomy

The genus was described by Carl Anton von Meyer and published in Verzeichness der Pflanzen des Caspischen Meeres 210, 1831.[3] The type species is Acanthophyllum mucronatum C.A. Mey.

Acanthophyllum Bikh in Iran

Accepted Species

The following species of Acanthophyllum were accepted as of October 2013.

  • Acanthophyllum acerosum Sosn.
  • Acanthophyllum aculeatum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum adenophorum Freyn
  • Acanthophyllum albidum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum andarabicum Podlech ex Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum andersenii Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum anisocladum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum bilobum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum borsczowii Litv.
  • Acanthophyllum bracteatum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum brevibracteatum Lipsky
  • Acanthophyllum caespitosum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum chloroleucum Rech.f. & Aellen
  • Acanthophyllum coloratum (Preobr.) Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum crassifolium Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum crassinodum Yukhan. & J.R.Edm.
  • Acanthophyllum cyrtostegium Vved.
  • Acanthophyllum diezianum Hand.-Mazz.
  • Acanthophyllum elatius Bunge
  • Acanthophyllum fissicalyx Rech.f.
  • Acanthophyllum glandulosum Bunge ex Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum gracile Bunge ex Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum grandiflorum Stocks
  • Acanthophyllum heratense Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum heterophyllum Rech.f.
  • Acanthophyllum kabulicum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum kandaharicum Gilli
  • Acanthophyllum khuzistanicum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum knorringianum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum korolkowii Regel & Schmalh.
  • Acanthophyllum korshinskyi Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum krascheninnikovii Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum kurdicum Boiss. & Hausskn.
  • Acanthophyllum lamondiae Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum laxiflorum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum laxiusculum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum leucostegium Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum lilacinum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum longicalyx Hedge & Wendelbo
  • Acanthophyllum macrodon Edgew.
  • Acanthophyllum maimanense Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum microcephalum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum mikeschinianum Yukhan. & Kuvaev
  • Acanthophyllum mucronatum C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum oppositiflorum Aytaç
  • Acanthophyllum pachycephalum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum pachystegium Rech.f.
  • Acanthophyllum pleiostegium Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum popovii (Preobr.) Barkoudah
  • Acanthophyllum pulcherrimum Hedge & Wendelbo
  • Acanthophyllum pulchrum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum pungens (Bunge) Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum raphiophyllum (Rech.f.) Barkoudah
  • Acanthophyllum recurvum Regel
  • Acanthophyllum sarawschanicum Golenkin
  • Acanthophyllum scapiflorum (Akhtar) Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum schugnanicum (Preobr.) Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum sordidum Bunge ex Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum speciosum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum spinosum (Desf.) C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum squarrosum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum stenostegium Freyn
  • Acanthophyllum stewartii (Thomson ex Edgew. & Hook.f.) Barkoudah
  • Acanthophyllum stocksianum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum subglabrum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum tenuifolium Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum verticillatum C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum xanthoporphyranthum Hedge & Wendelbo

References

  1. ↑ Acanthophyllum in PlantList
  2. ↑ M. Mahmoudi Shamsabad, J. Vaezi , F. Memariani & M. R. Joharchi. a new species and a new record of acanthophyllum c. a. mey. (caryophyllaceae) from northeast of iran.IRAN. J. BOT. 18 (1), 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Acanthophyllum". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

Bibliography

  1. Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.
  2. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980-2005. Fl. Pakistan Univ. of Karachi, Karachi.
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