Stenandrium

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Stenandrium
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Stenandrium dulce (sweet shaggytuft)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Subfamily: Acanthoideae
Tribe: Acantheae
Genus: Stenandrium
Nees (1836), nom. cons.
Synonyms [1]
  • CaldenbachiaPohl ex Nees (1847)
  • Gerardia L. (1753), nom. rej.

Stenandrium is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as shaggytuft, in the family Acanthaceae, [2] with 50 species of perennial herbs ranging from the southern United States to northern Argentina and central Chile. [1]

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History

When Carl Linnaeus published the first classification of plants using binomial nomenclature in 1753, he included five species of North American flowers under the genus Gerardia. By 1810, botanists had realized that one of these species, G. tuberosa, was distinctly different from the other four, but disagreed upon the proper resolution. It would remain controversial until the 1950's, when Stenandrium was selected as the official name of the genus including Gerardia tuberosa (now known as Stenandrium tuberosum ), while the opposing genus in Orobanchaceae was formally typified under the name Agalinis . [3]

Species

50 species are accepted. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stenandrium Nees. Plants of the World Online . Accessed 18 November 2023
  2. ↑ Everett, T.H.; Garden, N.Y.B. (1982), The New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture, Garland, p. 3226, ISBN   9780824072407
  3. ↑ Vinicio Castro Souza; Juliana de Paula-Souza; Maribeth Latvis (2025), "Proposal to conserve Agalinis, nom. cons. against the additional name Esterhazya (Orobanchaceae)", Taxon, 74 (4): 994
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