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Genus of flowering plants

Rosularia
Rosularia flowers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Subfamily: Sempervivoideae
Tribe: Sedeae
Genus: Rosularia
(DC) Stapf
Species

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Synonyms

Sempervivella Stapf

Rosularia sempervivoides

Rosularia is a small genus of the family Crassulaceae. It includes about 28-35 species from Europe, the Himalayas, and northern Africa.

Taxonomy

Rosularia was originally described by De Candolle (1828) as a section of the genus Umbilicus, and raised to the level of genus by Stapf (1923) Thus the genus bears the botanical authority (DC) Stapf of both authors.

In 1930 Berger included it in family Crassulaceae subfamily Sedoideae, as one of 9 genera. He further divided it into two sections (Eu-Rosularia and Ornithogalopsis) and further series, transferring some species of Sedum to it. Since then a number of species have been transferred in and out of the genus, including S. sempervivoides, which at one stage was placed in Prometheum. The genus Sempervivella was submerged in Rosularia. The genus is now placed within the Leucosedum clade, tribe Sedeae, subfamily Sempervivoideae of the Crassulaceae, but is embedded within Sedum paraphyletically.

Species

Rosularia contains about 28 species. The following species and subspecies were accepted by The Plant List (2013):

Distribution and habitat

Rosularia is found in arid and semi-arid regions from N. Africa (Morocco, Ethiopia), through the eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia (north of Tien Shan and east of W Himalaya), including Pakistan.

Ecology

Rosularia is an important larval host for the Central Asian butterfly Parnassius apollonius.

Uses

A number of species are cultivated as ornamental garden plants, and have been used in traditional medicine.

References

  1. ^ WFO 2019.
  2. de Candolle 1828.
  3. Stapf 1923.
  4. Berger 1930.
  5. ^ Sarwar & Qaiser 2012.
  6. ^ Ohba 1978.
  7. Mayuzumi & Ohba 2004.
  8. Thiede & Eggli 2007.
  9. TPL 2013.
  10. Tropicos 2019.
  11. RHS 2019.
  12. Tuzov 1997.

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Taxon identifiers
Rosularia
Umbilicus sect. Rosularia


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