Limeum
| Limeum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Limeaceae Reveal[1] |
| Genus: | Limeum L. |
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Limeum is a genus of flowering plants.
Limeum has traditionally been recognized as belonging to the Molluginaceae family, but is now treated as the sole genus in the family Limeaceae. The family is newly recognized through research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III system to deal with long-standing phylogenetic difficulties in placing various genera within the Caryophyllales.[2][3] Limeum comprises subshrub and herbaceous species native to tropical, eastern and southern Africa, and South Asia.[1] Previously, the genus Macarthuria from Western Australia was placed here, but it now is found to belong to Macarthuriaceae.[4]
References
- 1 2 Stevens, P. F. "ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENY WEBSITE, version 12.". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ↑ Crawley, S. S.; Hilu, K. W. (10 November 2011). "Impact of missing data, gene choice, and taxon sampling on phylogenetic reconstruction: the Caryophyllales (angiosperms)". Plant Systematics and Evolution 298 (2): 297–312. doi:10.1007/s00606-011-0544-x.
- ↑ 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. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ↑ Christenhusz, Maarten J.M.; Brockington, Samuel F.; Christin, Pascal-Antoine; Sage, Rowan F. (8 October 2014). "On the disintegration of Molluginaceae: a new genus and family (Kewa, Kewaceae)". Phytotaxa 181 (4): 238–243. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.181.4.4.
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