Caballeroa ifniensis
(No common name)Taxonomy
- 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: Spermatophytina
(auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Seed Plants
- Infraphylum: Angiospermae
auct.
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Plumbaginanae
Takhtajan ex Reveal, 1992
- Order: Plumbaginales
Lindley, 1833
- Family: Plumbaginaceae
(plum-baj-i-NAY-see-ay)
Durande, 1782, nom. cons. - Leadwort Family
- Genus: Caballeroa
- Specific epithet: ifniensis (Caball.) Font Quer
- Botanical name: Caballeroa ifniensis (Caball.) Font Quer
- Specific epithet: ifniensis (Caball.) Font Quer
- Genus: Caballeroa
- Family: Plumbaginaceae
(plum-baj-i-NAY-see-ay)
Durande, 1782, nom. cons. - Leadwort Family
- Order: Plumbaginales
Lindley, 1833
- Superorder: Plumbaginanae
Takhtajan ex Reveal, 1992
- Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Angiospermae
auct.
- Subphylum: Spermatophytina
(auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Seed Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
Physical Description
Family Plumbaginaceae:
Shrublets, shrubs, or herbs. Stems striate or reduced to a caudex. Leaves simple, alternate or basal, sessile or petiolate but petiole usually indistinct from blade; stipules absent; leaf blade entire or rarely pinnately lobed, with chalk glands on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, unbranched or branched, spicate, spicate-racemose, subcapitate, capitate, or paniculate, arranged into complanate spikes if branched, all composed of 1--10 or more cymules or helicoid cymes; cymules or helicoid cymes usually known as spikelets, 1--5-flowered; bracts 1 at base of each spikelet; bractlets 1 or 2 at base of each flower. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, sessile or very shortly pedicellate. Calyx persistent, hypogynous, tubular to funnelform, 5-ribbed, 5-lobed. Corolla hypogynous, petals connate but sometimes only at base, lobes or segments 5 and twisted. Stamens opposite corolla lobes, hypogynous or inserted at corolla base; anthers 2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil 1. Ovary superior, 1-locular. Styles 5, free or connate. Stigmas 5. Ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. Capsules usually enclosed within calyx. Seeds 1 per capsule; embryo straight, surrounded by thin starchy endosperm.
About 25 genera and 440 species: worldwide, main diversity in C Asia and Mediterranean region; seven genera and 46 species (11 endemic) in China.[1]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Caballeroa:
There are approximately 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: C. ifniensis
Bibliography
- Peng Ze-xiang (as Peng Tse-hsiang) in Li Shu-gang (as Lee Shu-kang), ed. 1987. Plumbaginaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(1): 1-47.
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Notes
Identifiers:
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15739887
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:686543-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3616294
Footnotes:
- Tse-Hsiang Pen & Rudolf V. Kamelin "Plumbaginaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 190. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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