Acanthophyllum Explained
Acanthophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae with about 75 species, spread in the Irano-Turanian area.
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. The type species is Acanthophyllum mucronatum C.A.Mey.
Species
, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:
- Acanthophyllum acerosum
- Acanthophyllum aculeatum
- Acanthophyllum adenophorum
- Acanthophyllum afghanicum
- Acanthophyllum albidum
- Acanthophyllum allochrusoides
- Acanthophyllum andarabicum
- Acanthophyllum andersenii
- Acanthophyllum anisocladum
- Acanthophyllum aphananthum
- Acanthophyllum bilobum
- Acanthophyllum bracteatum
- Acanthophyllum brevibracteatum
- Acanthophyllum bungei
- Acanthophyllum caespitosum
- Acanthophyllum cerastioides
- Acanthophyllum coloratum
- Acanthophyllum crassifolium
- Acanthophyllum cyrtostegium
- Acanthophyllum diaphanopterum
- Acanthophyllum diezianum
- Acanthophyllum eglandulosum
- Acanthophyllum ejtehadii
- Acanthophyllum ekbergii
- Acanthophyllum elatius
- Acanthophyllum flavum
- Acanthophyllum glandulosum
- Acanthophyllum gracile
- Acanthophyllum grandiflorum
- Acanthophyllum gypsophiloides
- Acanthophyllum herniarioides
- Acanthophyllum honigbergeri
- Acanthophyllum kabulicum
- Acanthophyllum kandaharicum
- Acanthophyllum kermanense
- Acanthophyllum knorringianum
- Acanthophyllum korolkowii
- Acanthophyllum korshinskyi
- Acanthophyllum krascheninnikovii
- Acanthophyllum lamondiae
- Acanthophyllum laxiflorum
- Acanthophyllum laxiusculum
- Acanthophyllum lilacinum
- Acanthophyllum lindbergii
- Acanthophyllum longicalyx
- Acanthophyllum luteum
- Acanthophyllum maimanense
- Acanthophyllum makranicum
- Acanthophyllum mikeschinianum
- Acanthophyllum mucronatum
- Acanthophyllum myrianthum
- Acanthophyllum oppositiflorum
- Acanthophyllum pachycephalum
- Acanthophyllum pachystegium
- Acanthophyllum paniculatum
- Acanthophyllum persicum
- Acanthophyllum pleiostegium
- Acanthophyllum popovii
- Acanthophyllum pulcherrimum
- Acanthophyllum pulchrum
- Acanthophyllum pungens
- Acanthophyllum raphiophyllum
- Acanthophyllum recurvum
- Acanthophyllum sarawschanicum
- Acanthophyllum scapiflorum
- Acanthophyllum schugnanicum
- Acanthophyllum sedifolium
- Acanthophyllum sordidum
- Acanthophyllum speciosum
- Acanthophyllum spinosum
- Acanthophyllum squarrosum
- Acanthophyllum stenocalycinum
- Acanthophyllum stenostegium
- Acanthophyllum stocksianum
- Acanthophyllum subglabrum
- Acanthophyllum tadshikistanicum
- Acanthophyllum takhtajanii
- Acanthophyllum transhyrcanum
- Acanthophyllum versicolor
- Acanthophyllum verticillatum
- Acanthophyllum xanthoporphyranthum
- Acanthophyllum yasamin-nassehiae
Bibliography
- Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980–2005. Fl. Pakistan Univ. of Karachi, Karachi.
