Rosularia
Genus of flowering plants
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Rosularia is a small genus of the family Crassulaceae. It includes about 28-35 species from Europe, the Himalayas, and northern Africa.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Subfamily: | Sempervivoideae |
| Tribe: | Sedeae |
| Genus: | Rosularia (DC) Stapf |
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Sempervivella Stapf[1] | |
Taxonomy
Rosularia was originally described by De Candolle (1828) as a section of the genus Umbilicus,[2] and raised to the level of genus by Stapf (1923)[3] Thus the genus bears the botanical authority (DC) Stapf of both authors.[1]
In 1930, Berger included it in family Crassulaceae subfamily Sedoideae, as one of 9 genera.[4][5] He further divided it into two sections (Eu-Rosularia and Ornithogalopsis) and further series,[6] transferring some species of Sedum to it. Since then, a number of species have been transferred in and out of the genus, including S. sempervivoides, which at one stage was placed in Prometheum.[5] The genus Sempervivella was submerged in Rosularia.[6] The genus is now placed within the Leucosedum clade, tribe Sedeae, subfamily Sempervivoideae of the Crassulaceae, but is embedded within Sedum paraphyletically.[7][1][8]
Species
Rosularia contains about 28 species. The following species and subspecies were accepted by The Plant List (2013):[9][10]
- Rosularia adenotricha (Wall. ex Edgew.) C.-A. Jansson[11]
- Rosularia adenotricha subsp. viguieri (Raym.-Hamet) C.-A. Jansson
- Rosularia aizoon (Fenzl) A. Berger
- Rosularia alpestris (Kar. & Kir.) Boriss
- Rosularia alpestris subsp. marnieri(Raymond-Hamet ex H. Ohba) Eggli
- Rosularia blepharophylla Eggli
- Rosularia borissovae U.P.Pratov
- Rosularia chrysantha (Boiss. & Heldr. ex Boiss.) Takhtajan
- Rosularia cypria (Holmboe) Meikle
- Rosularia davisii Muirhead
- Rosularia elymaitica (Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss.) A. Berger
- Rosularia glabra (Regel & Winkl.) A.Berger
- Rosularia globulariifolia (Fenzl) A. Berger
- Rosularia haussknechtii (Boiss. & Reut. ex Boiss.) A. Berger
- Rosularia jaccardiana (Maire & Wilczek) H. Ohba
- Rosularia libanotica (L.) Sam.
- Rosularia lineata (Boiss.) A.Berger
- Rosularia lutea Boriss.
- Rosularia pallida (Schott & Kotschy) Stapf
- Rosularia pallidiflora (Holmboe) Meikle
- Rosularia persica (Boiss.) A. Berger
- Rosularia pilosa (Fischer ex M. Bieberstein) Boriss.
- Rosularia platyphylla (Schrenk) A.Berger
- Rosularia radicosa (Boiss. & Hohen.) Eggli
- Rosularia rechingeri C.-A. Jansson
- Rosularia rosulata (Edgew.) H. Ohba
- Rosularia schischkinii Boriss.
- Rosularia sedoides (Decne.) H. Ohba
- Rosularia semiensis (J. Gay ex A. Richard) H. Ohba
- Rosularia sempervivoides (Fischer ex M. Bieberstein) Boriss.
- Rosularia serpentinica (Werderm.) Muirhead
- Rosularia serrata (L.) A.Berger
- Rosularia subspicata (Freyn) Boriss.
Distribution and habitat
Ecology
Rosularia is an important larval host for the Central Asian butterfly Parnassius apollonius.[12]
Uses
A number of species are cultivated as ornamental garden plants, and have been used in traditional medicine.[5]
