Overview
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Taxonomy
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The Tribe Dichondreae is a member of the Subfamily Faboideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Dichondreae:
- 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: Asteridae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Solananae
R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order: Solanales
Dumortier, 1829
- Family: Convolvulaceae
(kon-volv-yoo-LAY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- Subfamily: Faboideae
- Tribe: Dichondreae
- Subfamily: Faboideae
- Family: Convolvulaceae
(kon-volv-yoo-LAY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- Order: Solanales
Dumortier, 1829
- Superorder: Solananae
R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Subclass: Asteridae
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 Dichondreae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (6): Calycobolus · Dichondra · Falkia · Metaporana · Nephrophyllum · Porana
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 140 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Dichondreae.
Genera
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Calycobolus
Dichondra
Dichondra is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae. They are prostrate, perennial, herbaceous plants, with creeping stems which take root readily at the leaf nodes. The flowers are white, greenish or yellowish, 2-3 mm diameter. [more]
Falkia
Metaporana
Metaporana is a genus of in family Convolvulaceae. [more]
Nephrophyllum
Porana
At least 37 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Porana.
More info about the Genus Porana may be found here.
Sources
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