Phyllolepidum
Genus of plants
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Phyllolepidum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae, native to Italy, the Balkans and Turkey. It includes either a single species, Phyllolepidum cyclocarpum, a subshrub with two subspecies,[2] or two separate species, P. cyclocarpum and P. rupestre.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Phyllolepidum Trinajstić |
| Species: | P. cyclocarpum |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllolepidum cyclocarpum (Boiss.) L.Cecchi | |
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The species has a disjunct distribution in the Maiella massif and nearby mountains of the Central Apennines of Italy, in the mountains of North Macedonia, southern Albania, northern and central Greece, and in the Taurus Mountains of Anatolia and Turkish Kurdistan[4]
Subspecies
Plants of the World Online accepts two subspecies.[1]
- Phyllolepidum cyclocarpum subsp. cyclocarpum – southwestern Serbia to Albania, Greece, and Turkey[5]
- Phyllolepidum cyclocarpum subsp. pindicum (Hartvig) L.Cecchi (synonym Ptilotrichum rupestre (Sweet) Boiss.) – central Italy, former Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece