Acantholimon
Appearance
(Redirected from Prickly thrift)
Acantholimon | |
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Acantholimon glumaceum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Plumbaginaceae |
Genus: | Acantholimon Boiss. (1846), nom. cons. |
Species[1] | |
321; see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Acantholimon (prickly thrift) is a genus of small flowering plants within the plumbago or leadwort family, Plumbaginaceae. They are distributed from southeastern Europe to central Asia,[1] and also cultivated elsewhere in rock gardens.
Form
[edit]The evergreen subshrubs are generally cushion to mat-forming, with densely tufted shoots bearing mostly awl (long, pointed spike) to needle or grass-like, prickle to spine-tipped hard-textured leaves. They have shortish, simple or branched flower stems which can be loose or dense. The summer-borne flowers are composed of a funnel-shaped calyx, usually with a flared membranous margin, and five spreading petals.[2]
Species
[edit]321 species are currently accepted.[1] Selected species of Acantholimon include:
- Acantholimon acanthobryum
- Acantholimon acerosum
- Acantholimon acmostegium
- Acantholimon afanassievii
- Acantholimon alberti
- Acantholimon anatolicum
- Acantholimon armenum
- Acantholimon artosense
- Acantholimon avenaceum
- Acantholimon bashkaleicum
- Acantholimon birandii
- Acantholimon calvertii
- Acantholimon capitatum
- Acantholimon collare
- Acantholimon davisii
- Acantholimon doganii
- Acantholimon ekatherinae
- Acantholimon gabrieljaniae
- Acantholimon gillii
- Acantholimon glumaceum
- Acantholimon goeksunicum
- Acantholimon hoshapicum
- Acantholimon ibrahimii
- Acantholimon karamanicum
- Acantholimon koeycegizicum
- Acantholimon kotschyi
- Acantholimon libanoticum
- Acantholimon riyatguelii
- Acantholimon schemachense
- Acantholimon tataricum
- Acantholimon trojanum
- Acantholimon turcicum
- Acantholimon ulicinum
- Acantholimon vedicum
- Acantholimon venustum
- Acantholimon yildizelicum
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Acantholimon Boiss. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Iris willmottiana". encyclopaedia.alpinegardensociety.net. 2001. Retrieved 2 June 2015.