Rumicastrum Explained
Rumicastrum is a genus of plants in the family Montiaceae. It includes 66 species native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. These species were formerly classed in genus Calandrinia, which was discovered to be paraphyletic.[1]
Species
66 species are accepted:
- Rumicastrum arenicola
- Rumicastrum baccatum
- Rumicastrum balonense
- Rumicastrum brevipedatum
- Rumicastrum butcherense
- Rumicastrum calyptratum
- Rumicastrum chamaecladum
- Rumicastrum compositum
- Rumicastrum corrigioloides
- Rumicastrum creethae
- Rumicastrum crispisepalum
- Rumicastrum cygnorum
- Rumicastrum cylindricum
- Rumicastrum dielsii
- Rumicastrum dipetalum
- Rumicastrum dispermum
- Rumicastrum eremaeum
- Rumicastrum flavum
- Rumicastrum gracile
- Rumicastrum granuliferum
- Rumicastrum holtumii
- Rumicastrum hortiorum
- Rumicastrum kalanniense
- Rumicastrum lefroyense
- Rumicastrum lehmannii
- Rumicastrum liniflorum
- Rumicastrum maryonii
- Rumicastrum mirabile
- Rumicastrum monogynum
- Rumicastrum monospermum
- Rumicastrum morrisae
- Rumicastrum oblongum
- Rumicastrum opertum
- Rumicastrum orarium
- Rumicastrum papillatum
- Rumicastrum pentavalve
- Rumicastrum pickeringii
- Rumicastrum pleiopetalum
- Rumicastrum polyandrum
- Rumicastrum polypetalum
- Rumicastrum poriferum
- Rumicastrum primuliflorum
- Rumicastrum ptychospermum
- Rumicastrum pumilum
- Rumicastrum quadrivalve
- Rumicastrum quartziticum
- Rumicastrum remotum
- Rumicastrum reticulatum
- Rumicastrum rubrisabulosum
- Rumicastrum schistorhizum
- Rumicastrum sculptum
- Rumicastrum spergularinum
- Rumicastrum sphaerophyllum
- Rumicastrum stagnense
- Rumicastrum stenogynum
- Rumicastrum strophiolatum
- Rumicastrum tepperianum
- Rumicastrum tholiforme
- Rumicastrum translucens
- Rumicastrum tumidum
- Rumicastrum umbelliforme
- Rumicastrum uncinellum
- Rumicastrum uniflorum
- Rumicastrum vernicosum
- Rumicastrum volubile
- Rumicastrum wilsonii
Uses
Rumicastrum balonense is recorded in the 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia as being called "periculia" by Indigenous Australians and that the plant was eaten by Europeans with bread while Indigenous Australians used it as a food when mixed with baked bark. "The seed is used for making a kind of bread, after the manner of that of Portulaca oleracea. (Mueller, Fragm., x., 71.)."[2]
Notes and References
- Hershkovitz, M.A.. 2020. Rumicastrum Ulbrich (Montiaceae): a beautiful name for the Australian calandrinias. Phytologia. 102. 116–123.
- Book: J. H. Maiden . 1889 . The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania . Turner and Henderson, Sydney .
