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Genus of plants

Acrosanthes
Acrosanthes anceps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Aizoaceae
Subfamily: Acrosanthoideae
Klak
Genus: Acrosanthes
Eckl. & Zeyh. (1837)
Synonyms

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.

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). Their seeds are likely dispersed by ants.

Taxonomy

This genus was first described by Ecklon and Zeyher in 1837.

Species

There are 7 recognized species as of 2022:

  1. Acrosanthes anceps (Thunb.) Sond.
  2. Acrosanthes angustifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.
  3. Acrosanthes decandra Fenzl
  4. Acrosanthes humifusa (Thunb.) Sond.
  5. Acrosanthes microphylla Adamson
  6. Acrosanthes parviflora J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
  7. Acrosanthes teretifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.

References

  1. ^ "Acrosanthes Eckl. & Zeyh. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  2. Kubitzki, K. (1993). Kubitzki, Klaus; Rohwer, Jens G; Bittrich, Volker (eds.). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Volume 2, Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH. p. 45. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02899-5. ISBN 978-3-642-08141-5. S2CID 38606188.
  3. ^ Schmid, Rudolf; Govaerts, Rafaël; Govaerts, Rafael (August 1996). "World Checklist of Seed Plants". Taxon. 45 (3): 45. doi:10.2307/1224173. ISSN 0040-0262. JSTOR 1224173.
  4. 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.
  5. Ecklon, Christian Friedrich; Zeyher, Karl Ludwig Philipp (1835). Enumeratio plantarum Africae australis extratropicae quae collectae, determinatae et expositae (in Latin). Perthes & Besser.
Taxon identifiers
Acrosanthes
Acrosanthoideae
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