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Description
Family Frankeniaceae
Herbs, subshrubs
, or shrubs
. Leaves simple
, small, opposite, petiolate
[or sessile], with salt glands
; paired
leaves united
at base
by sheathing
margins
; leaf blade
flattened [to subterete], margin entire, slightly to gradually [to strongly] revolute
. Flowers hermaphroditic
[rarely unisexual
], small, actinomorphic
, sessile, subtended by [2 or]4 leaflike floral
bracts, solitary or clustered in terminal
or axillary
, simple or compound
dichasia (frequently with some monochasial
branching) . Calyx persistent
, tubular
, ribbed
, [4 or]5[-7]-dentate. Petals [4 or]5[-7], free
, imbricate, with spreading
limb, clawed at base, with a scalelike appendage
or ligule present [rarely absent] on adaxial
face
of claw
. Stamens [3-]6[to many]; filaments
free or slightly united at base; anthers
2-thecate, extrose, longitudinally dehiscent
. Pistil 1, consisting of (1-) 3(or 4) carpels; ovary superior, 1-loculed; ovules numerous
on parietal
placentas [to fewer, rarely 1]; style solitary, slender; style branches [1-]3[or 4], as many as carpels. Capsule included
in persistent calyx, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds [1 to] numerous, small; testa thinly crustaceous
; embryo immersed
in endosperm.
One genus and ca.
70 species: N and S Africa, C and SW Asia, Atlantic islands, Australia, Europe, North and South America; one species in China.[1]
Genus Frankenia
Morphological characters and geographic distribution are the same as those of the family .[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Violanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Caryophyllales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Family:
Frankeniaceae
()
- A. de Saint-Hilaire, 1815 ex Desvaux, in Gérardin & Desvaux, 1817, nom. cons.
- frankenias
- Genus:
Frankenia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Seaheath
- Specific epithet:
leonardiorum
- Alain
- Botanical name: - Frankenia leonardiorum Alain
- Specific epithet:
leonardiorum
- Alain
- Genus:
Frankenia
(
- Family:
Frankeniaceae
(
- Order:
Caryophyllales
(
- Superorder:
Violanae
(
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Alain Publication : Brittonia xx. 155 (1968).
Similar Species
Members of the genus Frankenia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
F. hirsuta (Sea Heath) · F. jamesii (Frank Bush) · F. johnstonii (Johnston Frankenia) · F. laevis (Sea Heath) · F. palmeri (Palmer's Frankenia) · F. pauciflora (Southern Sea-Heath) · F. portulacifolia (St Helena Tea) · F. pulverulenta (European Frankenia) · F. salina (Alkali Heath) · F. thymifolia (Sea Heath)
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Further Reading
- Zhang Pengyun & Zhang Yaojia. 1990. Frankeniaceae. In: Li Hsiwen, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 50(2): 139-141.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4545421
Footnotes
- Qiner Yang & Molly Whalen "Frankeniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 57. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- "Frankenia". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 57. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
