Limeum

<i>Limeum</i>

Limeum

Genus of flowering plants

Limeum is a genus of flowering plants. It includes 25 species.

Quick Facts Limeum, Scientific classification ...

The genus Limeum was traditionally recognized as belonging to the family Molluginaceae, but is now treated as the sole genus in the monotypic family Limeaceae. The family is newly recognized through research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III system to deal with long-standing phylogenetic difficulties in placing various genera within the Caryophyllales.[3][4] Limeum comprises subshrub and herbaceous species native to tropical, eastern and southern Africa, and South Asia.[1] Previously, the genus Macarthuria from Australia was also placed here, but it now is found to belong to Macarthuriaceae.[5]

Species list

Limeum contains the following species:[6]

  • Limeum aethiopicum Burm.f.
  • Limeum africanum L.
  • Limeum angustifolium Verdc.
  • Limeum arabicum Friedrich
  • Limeum arenicola G.Schellenb.
  • Limeum argute-carinatum Wawra
  • Limeum deserticola Dinter & G.Schellenb.
  • Limeum diffusum (J.Gay) Schinz
  • Limeum dinteri G.Schellenb.
  • Limeum fenestratum (Fenzl) Heimerl
  • Limeum fruticosum Verdc.
  • Limeum humifusum Friedrich
  • Limeum humile Forssk.
  • Limeum katangense Hauman
  • Limeum madagascariense Sukhor.
  • Limeum myosotis H.Walter
  • Limeum obovatum Vicary
  • Limeum pauciflorum Moq.
  • Limeum praetermissum C.Jeffrey
  • Limeum pterocarpum (J.Gay) Heimerl
  • Limeum rhombifolium G.Schellenb.
  • Limeum subnudum Friedrich
  • Limeum sulcatum (Klotzsch) Hutch.
  • Limeum telephioides E.Mey. ex Fenzl
  • Limeum viscosum (J.Gay) Fenzl

References

  1. [1]
    Stevens, P. F. "ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENY WEBSITE, version 12". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Limeum L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. [3]
    Crawley, S. S.; Hilu, K. W. (10 November 2011). "Impact of missing data, gene choice, and taxon sampling on phylogenetic reconstruction: the Caryophyllales (angiosperms)". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 298 (2): 297–312. doi:10.1007/s00606-011-0544-x. S2CID 254059682.
  4. [4]
    Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
  5. [5]
    Christenhusz, Maarten J.M.; Brockington, Samuel F.; Christin, Pascal-Antoine; Sage, Rowan F. (8 October 2014). "On the disintegration of Molluginaceae: a new genus and family (Kewa, Kewaceae)". Phytotaxa. 181 (4): 238–243. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.181.4.4.
  6. [6]
    "Limeum L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2022-04-14.


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