Acanthophyllum

Acanthophyllum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae with about 75 species, spread in the Irano-Turanian area.[1]

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

See text

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.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus was described by Carl Anton von Meyer and published in Verzeichness der Pflanzen des Caspischen Meeres 210, 1831.[2] The type species is Acanthophyllum mucronatum C.A.Mey.

Acanthophyllum Bikh in Iran

Species

As of October 2019, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[3]

  • Acanthophyllum acerosum Sosn.
  • Acanthophyllum aculeatum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum adenophorum Freyn
  • 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 (Preobr.) Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum crassifolium Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum cyrtostegium Vved.
  • Acanthophyllum diezianum Hand.-Mazz.
  • Acanthophyllum eglandulosum (Hedge & Wendelbo) Pirani
  • Acanthophyllum ejtehadii Mahmoudi & Vaezi
  • Acanthophyllum elatius Bunge
  • Acanthophyllum fissicalyx Rech.f.
  • 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 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 longicalyx Hedge & Wendelbo
  • Acanthophyllum macrodon Edgew.
  • Acanthophyllum maimanense Schiman-Czeika
  • 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 scapiflorum (Akhtar) Schiman-Czeika
  • Acanthophyllum schugnanicum (Preobr.) 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 stenostegium Freyn
  • Acanthophyllum stewartii (Thomson ex Edgew. & Hook.f.) Barkoudah
  • Acanthophyllum stocksianum Boiss.
  • Acanthophyllum subglabrum Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum tadshikistanicum (Schischk.) Schischk.
  • Acanthophyllum takhtajanii (Gabrieljan & Dittrich) A.Pirani & Rabeler
  • Acanthophyllum versicolor Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum verticillatum C.A.Mey.
  • Acanthophyllum xanthoporphyranthum Hedge & Wendelbo
  • Acanthophyllum yasamin-nassehiae Joharchi & Pirani

References
  1. 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)
  2. "Acanthophyllum", Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, retrieved 27 October 2013
  3. "Acanthophyllum C.A.Mey.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-10-27

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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