Biology:Acrosanthes
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Short description: Genus of plants
| Acrosanthes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Subfamily: | Acrosanthoideae Klak |
| Genus: | Acrosanthes Eckl. & Zeyh. (1837) |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Didaste E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond. (1862) | |
Acrosanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae. It is native to the Namibia and South Africa 's Cape Provinces in Southern Africa.[1]
Description
Plants in this genus are generally prostrate to sprawling branching perennials with opposite succulent leaves. Inflorescences are a cyme, and flowers have 5 calyx lobes, 8 to many stamen, and an inferior ovary. Fruits are 2 loculed capsules with basal placentation (see "in plants"), and the fruit is xerochastic (fruit dehisces when dry).[2][3] Their seeds are likely dispersed by ants.[4]
Taxonomy
This genus was first described by Ecklon and Zeyher in 1837.[3][5]
Species
There are 7 recognized species as of 2022:[1]
- Acrosanthes anceps (Thunb.) Sond.
- Acrosanthes angustifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Acrosanthes decandra Fenzl
- Acrosanthes humifusa (Thunb.) Sond.
- Acrosanthes microphylla Adamson
- Acrosanthes parviflora J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
- Acrosanthes teretifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Acrosanthes Eckl. & Zeyh. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16084-1.
- ↑ Kubitzki, K. (1993) (in en). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Volume 2, Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH. pp. 45. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02899-5. ISBN 978-3-642-08141-5. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-02899-5.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schmid, Rudolf; Govaerts, Rafaël; Govaerts, Rafael (August 1996). "World Checklist of Seed Plants". Taxon 45 (3): 45. doi:10.2307/1224173. ISSN 0040-0262. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1224173.
- ↑ Bond, W. J.; Slingsby, P. (June 1983). "Seed Dispersal by Ants in Shrublands of the Cape Province and its Evolutionary Implications". South African Journal of Science 79 (6): 237–233. https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00382353_2316.
- ↑ Ecklon, Christian Friedrich; Zeyher, Karl Ludwig Philipp (1835) (in la). Enumeratio plantarum Africae australis extratropicae quae collectae, determinatae et expositae. Perthes & Besser. https://books.google.com/books?id=21wYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9.
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