Acanthophyllum

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the pink family Caryophyllaceae}}

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| image_caption = Acanthophyllum mucronatum

| taxon = Acanthophyllum

| authority = C.A.Mey.

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  • Allochrusa Bunge ex Boiss.
  • Czeikia Ikonn.
  • Diaphanoptera Rech.f.
  • Kabulianthe (Rech.f.) Ikonn.
  • Kuhitangia Ovcz.
  • Ochotonophila Gilli
  • Scleranthopsis Rech.f.
  • Timaeosia Klotzsch

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Acanthophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae with about 75 species, spread in the Irano-Turanian area.{{Citation |last1=Mahmoudi Shamsabad |first1=M. |last2=Vaezi |first2=J. |last3=Memariani |first3=F. |last4=Joharchi |first4=M.R. |date=2012 |title=A new species and a new record of Acanthophyllum C.A.Mey. (Caryophyllaceae) from northeast of Iran |journal=Iran. J. Bot. |volume=18 |issue=1 |name-list-style=amp }}

Description

Small, shrubby perennial plants with spiny leaves. Flowers white or pink, sessile in solitary or globose heads. Spiny bracts. Calyx cylindrical, with 5 teeth. Petals 5, entire or retuse. Stamens 20. Capsule ovoid, irregularly dehiscent from base. Reniform seeds.

Taxonomy

The genus was described by Carl Anton von Meyer and published in Verzeichness der Pflanzen des Caspischen Meeres 210, 1831.{{citation |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40029994 |title= Acanthophyllum|access-date=27 October 2013 |work= Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden}} The type species is Acanthophyllum mucronatum C.A.Mey.

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Species

{{As of|2023|March}}, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:{{citation |title=Acanthophyllum C.A.Mey. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6156-1 |access-date=2023-03-17 }}

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References

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Bibliography

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  1. Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.
  2. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980–2005. Fl. Pakistan Univ. of Karachi, Karachi.

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Category:Caryophyllaceae

Category:Caryophyllaceae genera