Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Alysseae is a member of the Subfamily Bombinae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Alysseae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Ranunculanae
Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order: Brassicales
Bromhead, 1838
- Family: Cruciferae A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Order: Brassicales
Bromhead, 1838
- Superorder: Ranunculanae
Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Alysseae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (11): Alyssum · Asperuginoides · Aurinia · Berteroa · Bornmuellera · Clypeola · Didymophysa · Farsetia · Fibigia · Lobularia · Physoptychis
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 777 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Alysseae.
Genera
Alyssum
Alyssum is a genus of about 100?170 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region. The genus comprises annual and perennial herbaceous plants or (rarely) small shrubs, growing to 10?100 cm tall, with oblong-oval leaves and yellow or white flowers (pink to purple in a few species). [more]
Asperuginoides
Aurinia
Aurinia is a genus of flowering plant of the family Brassicaceae. [more]
Berteroa
Herbs annual or perennial. Trichomes stellate, mixed with simple ones. Stems erect or ascending, simple or branched. Basal leaves petiolate, not rosulate, simple, entire, dentate, or sinuate. Cauline leaves sessile, not auriculate, often entire. Racemes several flowered, dense, ebracteate. Fruiting pedicels slender, erect or divaricate. Sepals oblong, deciduous, suberect or spreading, pubescent, base of lateral pair not saccate. Petals white or rarely yellow, much longer than sepals; blade obcordate, apex deeply 2-fid; claw short. Stamens 6, tetradynamous; filaments of median pairs flattened basally, unappendaged or laterally 1-toothed; lateral pair with a basal toothlike appendage; anthers oblong, obtuse at apex. Nectar glands 4; median glands absent; lateral glands 1 on each side of lateral stamen. Ovules 4-16 per ovary. Fruit dehiscent silicles, oblong, elliptic, ovate, obovate, or orbicular, latiseptate, sometimes slightly inflated, sessile; valves veinless or with an obscure midvein, stellate hairy or glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete, membranous; style to 4 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; stigma capitate, obscurely 2-lobed. Seeds biseriate, winged, margined, or wingless, suborbicular or lenticular, plump or flattened; seed coat minutely reticulate, not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent.[1] [more]
Bornmuellera
Clypeola
Didymophysa
Farsetia
Farsetia is a genus of in the Brassicaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]
Fibigia
Lobularia
Lobularia is a genus of four or five species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, closely related to (and formerly often included in) the genus Alyssum. [more]
Physoptychis
At least 4 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Physoptychis.
More info about the Genus Physoptychis may be found here.
Footnotes
- "Berteroa". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 65. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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