Smelowskia

Smelowskia, sometimes called false candytufts, is a genus of flowering plants in the crucifer family Brassicaceae, native to mountains and arctic regions of Asia and western North America. They may or may not be of Beringian origin.[2]

Smelowskia
Smelowskia calycina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Smelowskia
C.A.Mey.[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Chrysanthemopsis Rech.f.
  • Gorodkovia Botsch. & Karav.
  • Hediniopsis Botsch. & V.V.Petrovsky
  • Redowskia Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Sinosophiopsis Al-Shehbaz
  • Sophiopsis O.E.Schulz

Species

Currently accepted species include:

  • Smelowskia alba (Pall.) Regel
  • Smelowskia altaica (Pobed.) Botsch.
  • Smelowskia americana Rydb.
  • Smelowskia annua Rupr.
  • Smelowskia bartholomewii (Al-Shehbaz) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia bifurcata (Turcz. ex Ledeb.) Botsch.
  • Smelowskia borealis (Greene) W.H.Drury & Rollins
  • Smelowskia calycina (Stephan ex Willd.) C.A.Mey.
  • Smelowskia czukotica (Botsch. & V.V.Petrovsky) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia flavissima Kar. & Kir.
  • Smelowskia furcata (Al-Shehbaz) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia heishuiensis (W.T.Wang) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia inopinata (Kom.) Kom.
  • Smelowskia jacutica (Botsch. & Karav.) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia johnsonii G.A.Mulligan
  • Smelowskia media (W.H.Drury & Rollins) E.M.Velichkin
  • Smelowskia micrantha (Botsch. & Vved.) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia mongolica Kom.
  • Smelowskia ovalis M.E.Jones
  • Smelowskia parryoides (Cham.) Polunin
  • Smelowskia pectinata (Bunge) E.M.Velichkin
  • Smelowskia porsildii (W.H.Drury & Rollins) Jurtzev
  • Smelowskia pyriformis W.H.Drury & Rollins
  • Smelowskia sisymbrioides (Regel & Herder) Paulsen
  • Smelowskia sophiifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia tibetica Lipsky
Smelowskia borealis on the slopes of Denali

References
  1. C.F.von Ledebour, Fl. Altaic. 3: 165 (1831)
  2. Carlsen, Tor; Elven, Reidar; Brochmann, Christian (2010). "The evolutionary history of Beringian Smelowskia (Brassicaceae) inferred from combined microsatellite and DNA sequence data". Taxon. 59 (2): 427–438. doi:10.1002/tax.592008.
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