Agdestis
| Agdestis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Phytolaccaceae |
| Genus: | Agdestis Moc. & Sessé ex DC. |
Agdestis is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species Agdestis clematidia, a vine native to Florida, Texas, Mexico, and Central America.[1][2] Its common name rockroot refers to the large boulder-like root.[1]
Taxonomy
Agdestis is usually placed in the Phytolaccaceae family.[3] Its classification is uncertain, however, as several studies of molecular phylogenetics have found it to be possibly the sister taxon of Sarcobatus, also of uncertain classification and often placed in its own family, Sarcobataceae.[4]
References
- 1 2 Mark A. Nienaber and John W. Thieret (2004), "Agdestis clematidea Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 543. 1817", Flora of North America online 4
- ↑ Mark A. Nienaber and John W. Thieret (2004), "Agdestis Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 511, 543. 1817", Flora of North America online 4
- ↑ Tropicos.org, retrieved 14 February 2016
- ↑ Yang, Y.; Moore, M.J.; Brockington, S.F.; Soltis, D.E.; Wong, G.K.-S.; Carpenter, E.J.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, L.; Yan, Z.; Xie, Y.; Sage, R.F.; Covshoff, S.; Hibberd, J.M.; Nelson, M.N.; Smith, S.A. (2015), "Dissecting molecular evolution in the highly diverse plant clade Caryophyllales using transcriptome sequencing" (PDF), Molecular Biology and Evolution, doi:10.1093/molbev/msv081
External links
Data related to Agdestis at Wikispecies
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