Acanthophyllum Squarrosum

''Acanthophyllum'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae with about 75 species, spread in the Irano-Turanian area.

Description

Small, shrubby perennial plants with spiny leaves. Flowers white or pink, sessile in solitary or globose heads. Spiny bracts. Calyx cylindrical, with 5 teeth. Petals 5, entire or retuse. Stamens 20. Capsule ovoid, irregularly dehiscent from base. Reniform seeds.

Taxonomy

The genus was described by Carl Anton von Meyer and published in ''Verzeichness der Pflanzen des Caspischen Meeres'' 210, 1831. The type species is '' Acanthophyllum mucronatum'' C.A.Mey.

Species

, ''Plants of the World Online'' accepted the following species:

*'' Acanthophyllum acerosum'' Sosn.
*''Acanthophyllum aculeatum'' Schischk.
*''Acanthophyllum adenophorum'' Freyn
*'' Acanthophyllum allochrusoides'' (Gilli) Pirani
*'' Acanthophyllum andarabicum'' Podlech ex Schiman-Czeika
*''Acanthophyllum andersenii'' Schiman-Czeika
*''Acanthophyllum anisocladum'' Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum aphananthum'' Rech.f.
*'' Acanthophyllum bilobum'' Schiman-Czeika
*''Acanthophyllum bracteatum'' Boiss.
*''Acanthophyllum brevibracteatum'' Lipsky
*''Acanthophyllum bungei'' (Boiss.) Trautv.
*''Acanthophyllum caespitosum'' Boiss.
*''Acanthophyllum cerastioides'' (D.Don) Madhani & Zarre
*''Acanthophyllum coloratum'' (Preobr.) Schischk.
*''Acanthophyllum crassifolium'' Boiss.
*''Acanthophyllum cyrtostegium'' Vved.
*''Acanthophyllum diezianum'' Hand.-Mazz.
*''Acanthophyllum eglandulosum'' (Hedge & Wendelbo) Pirani
*'' Acanthophyllum ejtehadii'' Mahmoudi & Vaezi
*'' Acanthophyllum elatius'' Bunge
*'' Acanthophyllum fissicalyx'' Rech.f.
*'' Acanthophyllum glandulosum'' Bunge ex Boiss.
*''Acanthophyllum gracile'' Bunge ex Boiss.
*'' Acanthophyllum grandiflorum'' Stocks
*'' Acanthophyllum gypsophiloides'' Regel
*'' Acanthophyllum herniarioides'' (Boiss.) Madhani & Zarre
*'' Acanthophyllum honigbergeri'' (Fenzl) Barkoudah
*'' Acanthophyllum kabulicum'' Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum kandaharicum'' Gilli
*'' Acanthophyllum knorringianum'' Schischk.
*'' Acanthophyllum korolkowii'' Regel & Schmalh.
*'' Acanthophyllum korshinskyi'' Schischk.
*'' Acanthophyllum krascheninnikovii'' Schischk.
*''Acanthophyllum lamondiae'' Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum laxiflorum'' Boiss.
*'' Acanthophyllum laxiusculum'' Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum lilacinum'' Schischk.
*'' Acanthophyllum longicalyx'' Hedge & Wendelbo
*''Acanthophyllum macrodon'' Edgew.
*''Acanthophyllum maimanense'' Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum mikeschinianum'' Yukhan. & Kuvaev
*'' Acanthophyllum mucronatum'' C.A.Mey.
*'' Acanthophyllum myrianthum'' (Rech.f.) Madhani & A.Pirani
*'' Acanthophyllum oppositiflorum'' Aytaç
*'' Acanthophyllum pachycephalum'' Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum pachystegium'' Rech.f.
*'' Acanthophyllum paniculatum'' Regel & Herder
*'' Acanthophyllum persicum'' (Boiss.) A.Pirani & Rabeler
*'' Acanthophyllum pleiostegium'' Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum popovii'' (Preobr.) Barkoudah
*'' Acanthophyllum pulcherrimum'' Hedge & Wendelbo
*'' Acanthophyllum pulchrum'' Schischk.
*'' Acanthophyllum pungens'' (Bunge) Boiss.
*'' Acanthophyllum raphiophyllum'' (Rech.f.) Barkoudah
*'' Acanthophyllum recurvum'' Regel
*'' Acanthophyllum scapiflorum'' (Akhtar) Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum schugnanicum'' (Preobr.) Schischk.
*'' Acanthophyllum sedifolium'' (Kurz) Madhani & Zarre
*'' Acanthophyllum sordidum'' Bunge ex Boiss.
*''Acanthophyllum speciosum'' Schiman-Czeika
*'' Acanthophyllum spinosum'' (Desf.) C.A.Mey.
*'' Acanthophyllum squarrosum'' Boiss.
*'' Acanthophyllum stenostegium'' Freyn
*''Acanthophyllum stewartii'' (Thomson ex Edgew. & Hook.f.) Barkoudah
*'' Acanthophyllum stocksianum'' Boiss.
*'' Acanthophyllum subglabrum'' Schischk.
*'' Acanthophyllum tadshikistanicum'' (Schischk.) Schischk.
*'' Acanthophyllum takhtajanii'' (Gabrieljan & Dittrich) A.Pirani & Rabeler
*'' Acanthophyllum versicolor'' Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
*'' Acanthophyllum verticillatum'' C.A.Mey.
*'' Acanthophyllum xanthoporphyranthum'' Hedge & Wendelbo
*'' Acanthophyllum yasamin-nassehiae'' Joharchi & Pirani

References

Bibliography

# Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.
# Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980–2005. Fl. Pakistan Univ. of Karachi, Karachi.

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Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae genera