Acanthophyllum
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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.
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
- ^ Acanthophyllum in PlantList
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Acanthophyllum". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
Bibliography
- Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980-2005. Fl. Pakistan Univ. of Karachi, Karachi.
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