Agdestis

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Agdestis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Phytolaccaceae
Subfamily: Agdestidoideae
Nowicke
Genus: Agdestis
Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
Species:
A. clematidea
Binomial name
Agdestis clematidea
Moc. & Sessé ex DC.

Agdestis is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species Agdestis clematidea, a vine native to Mexico & Central America, and introduced to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas (though potentially native to the latter). [1] [2] [3] [4] Its common name rockroot refers to the large boulder-like root. [1]

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Taxonomy

Agdestis is usually placed in the Phytolaccaceae family. [5] Its classification is uncertain, however, as several studies of molecular phylogenetics have found it to be possibly the sister taxon of Sarcobatus , also of uncertain classification and often placed in its own family, Sarcobataceae. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 Mark A. Nienaber; John W. Thieret (2004), "Agdestis clematidea Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 543. 1817", Flora of North America online, vol. 4
  2. ↑ Rojas-Sandoval, Julissa; Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro (2014-11-25). "Agdestis clematidea (rockroot)". CABI Compendium. CABI Compendium: 119791. doi:10.1079/cabicompendium.119791.
  3. ↑ "Agdestis clematidea (Rockroot) - FSUS". fsus.ncbg.unc.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  4. ↑ "Agdestis clematidea Moc. & Sessé ex DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  5. ↑ Tropicos.org , retrieved 14 February 2016
  6. ↑ Yang, Y.; Moore, M.J.; Brockington, S.F.; Soltis, D.E.; Wong, G.K.-S.; Carpenter, E.J.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, L.; Yan, Z.; Xie, Y.; Sage, R.F.; Covshoff, S.; Hibberd, J.M.; Nelson, M.N.; Smith, S.A. (2015), "Dissecting molecular evolution in the highly diverse plant clade Caryophyllales using transcriptome sequencing", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32 (8): 2001–2014, doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv081 , PMC   4833068 , PMID   25837578

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