Biology:Penthorum
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
| Penthorum | |
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| Penthorum chinense | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Penthoraceae Rydb. ex Britt.[1] |
| Genus: | Penthorum L. |
| Type species | |
| P. sedoides L. | |
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| The range of Penthorum. | |
Penthorum is a genus of plants in the order Saxifragales. They are erect herbaceous perennials about half a meter tall. The genus consists of two species, one from east Asia and one from eastern North America.[2] It is variously classified in the family Saxifragaceae[2] or its own family Penthoraceae.[1][4] Its closest relatives may be in Haloragaceae.[2]
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x/pdf. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Penthorum Linnaeus". Flora of China. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=124450.
- ↑ "Penthorum sedoides L.". Flora of Missouri. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=11&taxon_id=220010118.
- ↑ "Penthoraceae Rydb. ex Britton, nom. cons.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/family.pl?843.
Wikidata ☰ Q141556 entry
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