Acroglochin

Acroglochin persicarioides

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: Betoideae
Genus: Acroglochin

Species: A. persicarioides

• Names in synonymy: A. chenopodioides – A. muliensis – A. multiflora – A. obtusifolia – A. schraderiana
  
• For Lecanocarpus: L. aristatus – L. cauliflorus – L. nepalensis
  
• For Blitanthus: B. nepalensis
  

Note: phylogenetically isolated, formerly included in Betoideae, probably to be classified as a subfamily of its own

Name

Acroglochin Schrad., Cat. Hort. Goett. ex Schult. f. Mant. 1: 69. 227. (1822)

• Type species: Acroglochin chenopodioides Schrad. = Acroglochin persicarioides (Poir.) Moq.

Synonyms

• Lecanocarpus Nees, Pl. Hort. Bonn. Icon. 4. (1824)
  • Type species: Lecanocarpus cauliflorus (Link) Nees, T.Nees & Sinning
• Blitanthus Rchb., Cat. Hort. Dresden (1824); Handb. 238 (1837).
  • Type species: Blitanthus nepalensis Rchb.

References

Primary references

• Schultes, J.A. 1822. Mantissa in volumen primum. Systematis vegetabilium caroli a Linné : ex editione Joan. Jac. Roemer et Jos. Aug. Schultes. Stuttgardtiae: J.G. Cottae. BHL Reference page. : 69, 227.
• Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D., Nees von Esenbeck, T.F.L. & Sinning, W. 1824. Plantarum, in Horto Medico Bonnensi Nutritarum, Icones Selectae. Manip. I. (online) Reference page. : 4
• Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1837. Handbuch des natürlichen Pflanzensystems nach allen seinen Classen, Ordnungen und Familien. Dresden: Arnold. BHL Reference page. : 238

Additional references

• Kadereit, G., Hohmann, S. & Kadereit, J.W. 2006. A synopsis of Chenopodiaceae subfam. Betoideae and notes on the taxonomy of Beta. Willdenowia 36(1): 9–19. DOI: 10.3372/wi.36.36101 . Reference page. 
• Hedge, I.C. 1997. Acroglochin. In:
• Hedge, I.C., Akhani, H., Freitag, H., Kothe-Heinrich, G., Podlech, D., Rilke, S. & Uotila, P.  1997. Chenopodiaceae. In: Rechinger, K.H. (ed.): Flora Iranica Vol. 172. 371 pp., 212 tab., Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz. Reference page. : 19.
• Freitag, H., Hedge, I.C, Jafri, S.M.H, Kothe-Heinrich, G., Omer, S. & Uotila, P. 2001. Chenopodiaceae. In: Ali, S.I. (ed.): Flora of Pakistan 204. 217 pp., Department of Botany/Missouri Botanical Press, Karachi/St. Louis, ISBN 1-930723-10-5 eFloras. Reference page. : Acroglochin.
• Zhu, G., Mosyakin, S.L., & Clemants, S.E.
• 'eFloras 2008. Acroglochin in Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Acroglochin in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Nov. 27. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2019. Acroglochin. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Nov. 27. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Acroglochin. Published online. Accessed: 27 Nov. 2019.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Acroglochin. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Nov. 2019.

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