Tidestromia suffruticosa

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Tidestromia suffruticosa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Tidestromia
Species:
T. suffruticosa
Binomial name
Tidestromia suffruticosa
Synonyms [1]
  • Alternanthera suffruticosaTorr.
  • Cladothrix oblongifoliaS.Watson
  • Cladothrix suffruticosa(Torr.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex S.Watson
  • Tidestromia gemmataI.M.Johnst.
  • Tidestromia oblongifolia(S.Watson) Standl.
  • Tidestromia suffruticosa var. coahuilanaI.M.Johnst.

Tidestromia suffruticosa, the shrubby honeysweet, [2] is a perennial plant in the family Amaranthaceae of the southwestern United States and northeastern Mexican deserts. It has one of the highest rates of photosynthesis ever recorded. [3] It flowers from April to December. [3] It can survive very high temperatures, growing successfully in extreme environments such as Death Valley, [4] and the genetic basis for this is being studied with a view to making hardier crop plants to better cope with climate change. [5]

Subtaxa

The following varieties are accepted: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tidestromia suffruticosa (Torr.) Standl". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  2. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tidestromia suffruticosa". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 MacKay P (2013). "Green and Brown Flowers". Mojave desert wildflowers: a field guide to wildflowers, trees, and shrubs of the Mojave Desert, including the Mojave National Preserve, Death Valley National Park, and Joshua Tree National Park. Morris Publishing . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 260. ISBN   978-0-7627-9388-4.
  4. Björkman O, Pearcy RW, Harrison AT, Mooney H (February 1972). "Photosynthetic adaptation to high temperatures: a field study in death valley, california". Science. New York, N.Y. 175 (4023): 786–789. Bibcode:1972Sci...175..786B. doi:10.1126/science.175.4023.786. PMID   17836139. S2CID   20986880.
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