Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Amarantheae is a member of the Subfamily Amaranthoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Amarantheae:
- 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
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Caryophyllanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Caryophyllales
Perleb, 1826
- Suborder: Chenopodiineae
- Family: Amaranthaceae
(se-LO-see-uh)
Adanson, 1763 ex A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Amaranthoideae
- Tribe: Amarantheae
- Subfamily: Amaranthoideae
- Family: Amaranthaceae
(se-LO-see-uh)
Adanson, 1763 ex A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Suborder: Chenopodiineae
- Order: Caryophyllales
Perleb, 1826
- Superorder: Caryophyllanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- 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 Amarantheae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (22): Achyranthes · Aerva · Allmania · Amaranthus · Arthraerua · Bosea · Bothriochilus · Calicorema · Centemopsis · Chamissoa · Charpentiera · Cyathula · Indobanalia · Lagrezia · Leucosphaera · Marcellia · Marcelliopsis · Pandiaka · Psilotrichum · Ptilotus · Pupalia · Stilbanthus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1,478 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Amarantheae.
Genera
Achyranthes
Achyranthes is a genus of medicinal and ornamental plants in the Amaranthaceae family. [more]
Aerva
Aerva is a genus of plant in family Amaranthaceae. [more]
Allmania
Herbs annual. Stem erect or ascending. Leaves alternate, petiolate, linear to obovate, margin entire. Heads terminal or axillary, composed of 3-7-flowered cymes, stalked or subsessile. Flowers bisexual; each flower with 1 bract and 2 bracteoles, scarious. Stamens 5; filaments basally connate into a short cup, pseudostaminodes absent; anthers 2-loculed. Ovary ovoid; ovule 1, erect; style filiform; stigma slightly 2-lobed. Utricles ovate, dehiscent by lid. Seeds black, subglobose, lenticular, with aril.[1] [more]
Amaranthus
Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth, is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs. Approximately 60 species are recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to gold. Members of this genus share many characteristics and uses with members of the closely related genus Celosia. [more]
Arthraerua
Bosea
A genus in the Kingdom Bacteria. [more]
Bothriochilus
Coelia is a of orchids (family Orchidaceae). [more]
Calicorema
Centemopsis
Chamissoa
Chamissoa is a genus of plants in the family. This genus is sometimes included in the Chenopodiaceae family. [more]
Charpentiera
Charpentiera is a flowering plant genus in the pigweed family, Amaranthaceae. It consists of five species endemic to Hawaii, where they are known as papala, and one species found only on the island of Tubuai in the Austral Islands. All species are trees, some reaching more than 10 metres (33 ft) in height. [more]
Cyathula
Herbs or subshrubs. Stem erect or ascending. Leaves opposite, petiolate, margin entire. Flowers clustered in cymose partial inflorescences, 1-3 in each cluster, hermaphroditic, partly accompanied by sterile ones. Bracts ovate, membranous, often spiny. Tepals 5, nearly equal, membranous. Stamens 5; anther 2-loculed, oblong; filaments connate into a short cup at base, alternating with dentate or lacerate staminodes. Ovary obovoid; ovule 1, pendulous from a long funicle; style filiform, persistent; stigma capitulate. Utricles included in persistent perianth, globose, ellipsoid, or obovoid, membranous, indehiscent. Seeds oblong or ellipsoid.[2] [more]
Indobanalia
Lagrezia
Leucosphaera
Marcellia
Marcelliopsis
Pandiaka
Psilotrichum
Psilotrichum is a genus of plant in family Amaranthaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]
Ptilotus
Pupalia
Stilbanthus
Climbers large, woody, with pendulous branches. Leaves opposite. Spikes terminal or axillary from uppermost nodes, often panicled, on pendulous peduncles; midvein of bracteoles flexible, mucronate. Tepals 5, rigid. Stamens 5; filaments shortly connate at base, alternating with pseudostaminodes, pseudostaminodes oblong, long fimbriate; anthers 2-loculed. Ovary oblong, compressed; style slender; stigma minute. Fruit oblong, 1-seeded, indehiscent.[3] [more]
More info about the Genus Stilbanthus may be found here.
Footnotes
- "Allmania". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 417. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
- bei xian shu "Cyathula". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 421. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
- "Stilbanthus". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 429. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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