Nemacladus Explained
Nemacladus is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family known generally as threadplants. Species are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.[1] [2] [3] These are annual herbs with very slender, sometimes threadlike, branching stems bearing small five-lobed flowers.
Taxonomy
The genus was erected by Thomas Nuttall in 1842.[4] It is placed in the small subfamily Nemacladoideae of the family Campanulaceae.[5]
Species
, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[6]
- Nemacladus australis (Munz) Morin - Baja California
- Nemacladus bellus Morin & T.J.Ayers
- Nemacladus breviflorus (McVaugh) Morin & T.J.Ayers
- Nemacladus calcaratus Morin - Chimney Creek threadplant - California (Inyo + Tulare Cos)
- Nemacladus californicus (A.Gray) Morin - California (San Bernardino, Kern, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo Cos)
- Nemacladus capillaris Greene - much of California, southwestern Oregon
- Nemacladus eastwoodiae Morin & T.J.Ayers
- Nemacladus glanduliferus Jeps. - glandular threadplant - Arizona, southern California, Baja California
- Nemacladus gracilis Eastw. - slender threadplant - California (San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles Basin)
- Nemacladus interior (Munz) G.T.Robbins - Sierra threadplant - California, Oregon
- Nemacladus inyoensis Morin & T.J.Ayers
- Nemacladus longiflorus A.Gray - California, Arizona, Utah, Baja California
- Nemacladus matsonii Morin & T.J.Ayers
- Nemacladus montanus Greene - northern California
- Nemacladus morefieldii Morin & T.J.Ayers
- Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin - Sonora, Baja California, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, southern New Mexico, extreme western Texas
- Nemacladus parikhiae Morin & T.J.Ayers
- Nemacladus pinnatifidus Greene - Baja California, southern California
- Nemacladus ramosissimus Nutt. - smallflower threadplant - Baja California, southern California
- Nemacladus richardsiae Morin & T.J.Ayers
- Nemacladus rigidus Curran - stoutstem threadplant - California, Nevada, southeastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho
- Nemacladus rubescens Greene - California, Nevada, western Arizona, southwestern Utah
- Nemacladus secundiflorus G.T.Robbins - California
- Nemacladus sigmoideus G.T.Robbins - sigmoid threadplant - California, Nevada, western Arizona
- Nemacladus tenuis (McVaugh) Morin - California, Baja California
- Nemacladus twisselmannii J.T.Howell - California (Kern Co.)
External links
Notes and References
- http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=354491 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- Lammers, T.G. (2007). World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae: 1-675. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Nemacladus Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps for member of genus Nemacladus
- Web site: Nemacladus Nutt. . . 2022-04-23 .
- Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards). "Campanulaceae". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- Web site: Nemacladus Nutt.. . Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2022-04-23 .
