Acanthophyllum
Acanthophyllum mucronatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Acanthophyllum
C.A.Mey.
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Allochrusa Bunge ex Boiss.
  • Czeikia Ikonn.
  • Diaphanoptera Rech.f.
  • Kabulianthe (Rech.f.) Ikonn.
  • Kuhitangia Ovcz.
  • Ochotonophila Gilli
  • Scleranthopsis Rech.f.
  • Timaeosia Klotzsch

Acanthophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae with about 75 species, 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 squarrosum in Iran

Species

As of March 2023, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[1]

  • Acanthophyllum acerosum Sosn.
  • Acanthophyllum aculeatum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum adenophorum Freyn
  • Acanthophyllum afghanicum (Podlech) A.Pirani & Zarre
  • Acanthophyllum albidum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum allochrusoides (Gilli) Pirani
  • Acanthophyllum andarabicum Podlech ex Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum andersenii Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum anisocladum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum aphananthum Rech.f.
  • Acanthophyllum bilobum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum bracteatum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum brevibracteatum Lipsky
  • Acanthophyllum bungei (Boiss.) Trautv.
  • Acanthophyllum caespitosum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum cerastioides (D.Don) Madhani & Zarre
  • Acanthophyllum coloratum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum crassifolium Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum cyrtostegium Vved.
  • Acanthophyllum diaphanopterum A.Pirani & Moazzeni
  • Acanthophyllum diezianum Hand.-Mazz.
  • Acanthophyllum eglandulosum (Hedge & Wendelbo) Pirani
  • Acanthophyllum ejtehadii Mahmoudi & Vaezi
  • Acanthophyllum ekbergii (Hedge & Wendelbo) A.Pirani & Rabeler
  • Acanthophyllum elatius Bunge
  • Acanthophyllum flavum (Dickoré & Freitag) A.Pirani & Rabeler
  • Acanthophyllum glandulosum Bunge ex Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum gracile Bunge ex Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum grandiflorum Stocks
  • Acanthophyllum gypsophiloides Regel
  • Acanthophyllum herniarioides (Boiss.) Madhani & Zarre
  • Acanthophyllum honigbergeri (Fenzl) Barkoudah
  • Acanthophyllum kabulicum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum kandaharicum Gilli
  • Acanthophyllum kermanense (Bornm.) A.Pirani & Rabeler
  • Acanthophyllum knorringianum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum korolkowii Regel & Schmalh.
  • Acanthophyllum korshinskyi Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum krascheninnikovii Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum lamondiae Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum laxiflorum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum laxiusculum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum lilacinum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum lindbergii (Hedge & Wendelbo) A.Pirani & Oxelman
  • Acanthophyllum longicalyx Hedge & Wendelbo
  • Acanthophyllum luteum (Falat. & Mahmoodi) A.Pirani & Kovalchuk
  • Acanthophyllum maimanense Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum makranicum (Rech.f.) A.Pirani & Rabeler
  • Acanthophyllum mikeschinianum Yukhan. & Kuvaev
  • Acanthophyllum mucronatum C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum myrianthum (Rech.f.) Madhani & A.Pirani
  • Acanthophyllum oppositiflorum Aytaç
  • Acanthophyllum pachycephalum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum pachystegium Rech.f.
  • Acanthophyllum paniculatum Regel & Herder
  • Acanthophyllum persicum (Boiss.) A.Pirani & Rabeler
  • 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 Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum sedifolium (Kurz) Madhani & Zarre
  • Acanthophyllum sordidum Bunge ex Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum speciosum Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum spinosum (Desf.) C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum squarrosum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum stenocalycinum (Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika) A.Pirani & Moazzeni
  • Acanthophyllum stenostegium Freyn
  • Acanthophyllum stocksianum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum subglabrum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum tadshikistanicum (Schischk.) Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum takhtajanii (Gabrieljan & Dittrich) A.Pirani & Rabeler
  • Acanthophyllum transhyrcanum G.Preobr.
  • Acanthophyllum versicolor Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum verticillatum C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum xanthoporphyranthum Hedge & Wendelbo
  • Acanthophyllum yasamin-nassehiae Joharchi & A.Pirani

References

  1. 1 2 "Acanthophyllum C.A.Mey.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2023-03-17
  2. ↑ Mahmoudi Shamsabad, M.; Vaezi, J.; Memariani, F. & Joharchi, M.R. (2012), "A new species and a new record of Acanthophyllum C.A.Mey. (Caryophyllaceae) from northeast of Iran", Iran. J. Bot., 18 (1)
  3. 1 2 "Acanthophyllum", Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, retrieved 27 October 2013

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  2. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980–2005. Fl. Pakistan Univ. of Karachi, Karachi.
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