Arthrocaulon

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Salicornioideae
Tribus: Salicornieae
Genus: Arthrocaulon
Species: A. franzii – A. macrostachyum – A. meridionale

Name

Arthrocaulon Piirainen & G.Kadereit, Taxon 66(1): 123. 2017 [23 Feb 2017]

Type: Arthrocaulon macrostachyum (Moric.) Piirainen & G.Kadereit

Synonyms

Arthrocnemum Moq.., Chenop. Monogr. Enum. 111 (1840), a nomenclatural synonym of Salicornia

Piirainen, Liebisch & Kadereit (2017) propose abandoning the name Arthrocnemum in its current use, and describe two new genera, Arthrocaulon (Eurasia, Africa) and Arthroceras (North America).

Names in synonymy for Arthrocnemum: A. affine – A. africanum – A. ambiguum – A. arbuscula – A. australasicum – A. belangerianum – A. benthami – A. benthamii – A. bidens – A. brachystachyum – A. capense – A. caspicum – A. ciliolatum – A. coralloides – A. decumbens – A. donaldsonii – A. dunense – A. franzii – A. fruticosum – A. glaucum – A. halocnemoides – A. heptiflorum – A. hottentoticum – A. indicum – A. leiostachyum – A. littoreum – A. lylei – A. macrostachyum – A. meridionale – A. mossianum – A. namaquense – A. natalense – A. pachystachyum – A. perenne – A. pillansii – A. pruinosum – A. radicans – A. subterminale – A. terminale – A. triandrum – A. variiflorum – A. virginicum – A. xerophilum

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Europe
- Northern Europe
- Southwestern Europe
- Southeastern Europe
Africa
- Northern Africa
- Macaronesia
- West Tropical Africa
- Northeast Tropical Africa
- South Tropical Africa
Asia-Temperate
- Western Asia
- Arabian Peninsula
Asia-Tropical
- Indian Subcontinent

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Piirainen, M., Liebisch, O. & Kadereit, G. 2017. Phylogeny, biogeography, systematics and taxonomy of Salicornioideae (Amaranthaceae/Chenopodiaceae) – A cosmopolitan, highly specialized hygrohalophyte lineage dating back to the Oligocene. Taxon 66(1): 109–132. DOI: 10.12705/661.6 Reference page.
Moquin-Tandon, A. 1840. Chenopodearum Monographica Enumeratio. P.-J. Loss, Paris. BHL Reference page.
Ramírez, E., Rufo, L., Sánchez-Mata, D., de la Fuente, V. 2019. Arthrocaulon meridionalis (Chenopodiaceae), a new species of Mediterranean flora. Mediterranean Botany 40(1): 33–41. DOI: 10.5209/MBOT.59820 PDF download Reference page.

Additional references

Sukhorukov, A. & Nilova, M.V. 2016. A new species of Arthrocnemum (Salicornioideae: Chenopodiaceae-Amaranthaceae) from West Africa, with a revised characterization of the genus. Botany Letters 163(3): 237–250. DOI: 10.1080/23818107.2016.1185033 Reference page.
Hedge, I.C. 1997. Arthrocnemum. Pp. 128–130 in Hedge, I.C., Akhani, H., Freitag, H., Kothe-Heinrich, G., Podlech, D., Rilke, S. & Uotila, P. , Chenopodiaceae. In: Rechinger, K.H. (ed.): Flora Iranica Vol. 172. 371 pp., 212 tab., Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz. Reference page.
Hedge, I.C.: Arthrocnemum. In: 'eFloras 2008. Flora of Pakistan. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Ball, P.W.: Arthrocnemum. In:
eFloras 2008. Arthrocaulon in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Piirainen, M. 2009: Arthrocnemum. – In: Uotila, P. (ed.): Chenopodiaceae. Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Arthrocaulon. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 May 15. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Arthrocaulon. Published online. Accessed: May 15 2018.

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