Calligonum
Genus of flowering plants
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Calligonum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with about 41 species native to Northern Africa, Western, South, and Central Asia, and central China.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Polygonaceae |
| Subfamily: | Polygonoideae |
| Genus: | Calligonum L. |
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Description
Plants of the genus Calligonum are shrubs, diffusely but irregularly branched, with flexuous woody branches. Leaves are simple, opposite, nearly sessile, linear or scale-like, sometimes absent or very small, linear or filiform, distinct or united with short membranous ochreae. Flowers are bisexual, solitary or in loose axillary inflorescences. Flowers have persistent, 5-parted perianths not accrescent in fruit, and 10-18 stamens with filaments connate at the base. The ovary is tetragonous.[2][3]
Taxonomy
The genus Calligonum was first published by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[4] It is placed in the subfamily Polygonoideae, tribe Calligoneae, along with its sister genus, Pteropyrum.[5]
Species
41 species are accepted.[1]
- Calligonum acanthopterum I.G.Borshch.
- Calligonum alatosetosum Maassoumi & Kazempour
- Calligonum aphyllum (Pall.) Gürke
- Calligonum arborescens Litv.
- Calligonum azel Maire
- Calligonum babakianum Godw.
- Calligonum bakuense Litv.
- Calligonum × barsukiense Soskov
- Calligonum bucocladum Bunge
- Calligonum bykovii Godw.
- Calligonum × calcareum Pavlov
- Calligonum calvescens Maire
- Calligonum caput-medusae Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Calligonum comosum L'Hér.
- Calligonum crinitum Boiss.
- Calligonum crispum Bunge
- Calligonum cristatum Bunge
- Calligonum × densum I.G.Borshch.
- Calligonum × dissectum Popov
- Calligonum × dubianskyi Litv.
- Calligonum ebinuricum N.A.Ivanova ex Soskov
- Calligonum eriopodum Bunge
- Calligonum inerme Kamelin, Gorelova & A.V.Pavlenko
- Calligonum jeminaicum Z.M.Mao
- Calligonum junceum (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Litv.
- Calligonum klementzii Losinsk.
- Calligonum laristanicum Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika
- Calligonum leucocladum (Schrenk) Bunge
- Calligonum litwinowii Drobow
- Calligonum macrocarpum I.G.Borshch.
- Calligonum matteianum Drobow
- Calligonum microcarpum I.G.Borshch.
- Calligonum mongolicum Turcz.
- Calligonum murex Bunge
- Calligonum × paletzkianum Litv.
- Calligonum polygonoides L.
- Calligonum rubicundum Bunge
- Calligonum santoanum Korovin
- Calligonum schizopterum Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika
- Calligonum setosum (Litv.) Litv.
- Calligonum spinosetosum Maassoumi & Batooli
- Calligonum × spinulosum Drobow
- Calligonum × squarrosum Pavlov
- Calligonum taklimakanense B.R.Pan & K.M.Shen
- Calligonum tetrapterum Jaub. & Spach
- Calligonum trifarium Z.M.Mao
- Calligonum triste Litv.
- Calligonum turbineum Pavlov
- Calligonum zakirovii (Khalk.) Czerep.
