Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Zygophylleae is a member of the Subfamily Larreoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Zygophylleae:
- 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: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Geranianae
(Dumortier, 1829) Takhtajan, 1997
- Order: Zygophyllales
Takhtajan, 1997
- Suborder: Zygophyllineae
- Family: Zygophyllaceae
(TRY-bew-lus)
R. Brown, in Flinders, 1814
- Subfamily: Larreoideae
- Tribe: Zygophylleae
- Subfamily: Larreoideae
- Family: Zygophyllaceae
(TRY-bew-lus)
R. Brown, in Flinders, 1814
- Suborder: Zygophyllineae
- Order: Zygophyllales
Takhtajan, 1997
- Superorder: Geranianae
(Dumortier, 1829) Takhtajan, 1997
- Subclass: Rosidae
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 Zygophylleae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (8): Fagonia · Guaiacum · Larrea · Melocarpum · Metharme · Miltianthus · Roepera · Zygophyllum
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 437 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Zygophylleae.
Genera
Fagonia
Fagonia is a genus of plants in the Zygophyllaceae (Caltrop) family. [more]
Guaiacum
Guaiacum, sometimes spelled Guajacum, is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family Zygophyllaceae. It contains five species of slow-growing shrubs and trees, reaching a height of approximately 20 m (66 ft) but are usually less than half of that. All are native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas and are commonly known as lignum-vitae, guayac?n (Spanish), or ga?ac (French). The genus name originated in Maipurean, the language spoken by the native Ta?nos of the Bahamas; it was adopted by English in 1533, the first word in that language of American origin. [more]
Larrea
Larrea is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. It contains five species of evergreen shrubs that are native to the Americas. The generic name honours Spanish scientist J.A. de Larrea. South American members of this genus are known as jarillas and are so closely related that hybrids are partially fertile. One of the more notable species is the Creosote Bush (L. tridentata) of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico The King Clone ring in the Mojave Desert is a Creosote Bush clonal colony estimated to be 11,700 years old. [more]
Melocarpum
Metharme
A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]
Miltianthus
Roepera
Zygophyllum
Zygophyllum is a genus of plant in family Zygophyllaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]
At least 215 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zygophyllum.
More info about the Genus Zygophyllum may be found here.
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