Calligonum
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Calligonum | |
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Calligonum polygonoides | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Core eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Polygonaceae |
Subfamily: | Polygonoideae |
Genus: | Calligonum L. |
Species | |
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Calligonum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with about 80 species across the Mediterranean Sea region, Asia and North America.
Characteristics[edit]
Plants of the Calligonum genus are shrubs, diffusely but irregularly branched, with flexuous woody branches. Leaves are simple, opposite, nearly sessile, linear or scale-like, sometimes absent or very small, linear or filiform, distinct or united with short membranous ochreae. Flowers are bisexual, solitary or in loose axillary inflorescences. Flowers have persistent, 5-parted perianths not accrescent in fruit, and 10-18 stamens with filaments connate at the base. The ovary is tetragonous.[1][2]
Systematics[edit]
The species include:
- Calligonum aphyllum
- Calligonum arborescens
- Calligonum alaschanicum
- Calligonum bakuense
- Calligonum calliphysa
- Calligonum caput-medusae
- Calligonum chinense
- Calligonum colubrinum
- Calligonum comosum
- Calligonum cordatum
- Calligonum crinitum
- Calligonum comosum
- Calligonum densum
- Calligonum ebinuricum
- Calligonum elegans
- Calligonum gobicum
- Calligonum jeminaicum
- Calligonum junceum
- Calligonum klementzii
- Calligonum korlaense
- Calligonum leucocladum
- Calligonum microcarpum
- Calligonum mongolicum
- Calligonum polygonoides
- Calligonum potanini
- Calligonum pumilum
- Calligonum roborowskii
- Calligonum rouqiangense
- Calligonum rubicundum
- Calligonum squarrosum
- Calligonum trifarium
- Calligonum yengisaricum
- Calligonum zaidamense
References[edit]
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