Polycarpaea

Polycarpaea is a genus of plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. The genus was named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1792.

Polycarpaea
Polycarpaea filifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Polycarpaea
Lam., 1792
Polycarpaea corymbosa

Molecular phylogenetic analysis showed that the genus is polyphyletic and needs to be redefined. It falls into three distinct clades. One of these, a group of species related to P. corymbosa, has acquired the C4 photosynthetic pathway.[1]

Selected species

It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):

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References

  1. Kool, Annaleen (2012). Desert plants and deserted islands: systematics and ethnobotany in Caryophyllaceae (PhD thesis). Uppsala University. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-91-554-8471-2. Retrieved 23 June 2018.

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