Agdestis

<i>Agdestis</i>

Agdestis

Genus of flowering plants

Agdestis is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species Agdestis clematidea, a vine native to Florida, Texas, Mexico, and Central America.[1][2] Its common name rockroot refers to the large boulder-like root.[1]

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Taxonomy

Agdestis is usually placed in the Phytolaccaceae family.[3] Its classification is uncertain, however, as several studies of molecular phylogenetics have found it to be possibly the sister taxon of Sarcobatus, also of uncertain classification and often placed in its own family, Sarcobataceae.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Mark A. Nienaber; John W. Thieret (2004), "Agdestis clematidea Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 543. 1817", Flora of North America online, vol. 4
  2. [2]
    Mark A. Nienaber; John W. Thieret (2004), "Agdestis Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 511, 543. 1817", Flora of North America online, vol. 4
  3. [3]
    Tropicos.org, retrieved 14 February 2016
  4. [4]
    Yang, Y.; Moore, M.J.; Brockington, S.F.; Soltis, D.E.; Wong, G.K.-S.; Carpenter, E.J.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, L.; Yan, Z.; Xie, Y.; Sage, R.F.; Covshoff, S.; Hibberd, J.M.; Nelson, M.N.; Smith, S.A. (2015), "Dissecting molecular evolution in the highly diverse plant clade Caryophyllales using transcriptome sequencing", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32 (8): 2001–2014, doi:10.1093/molbev/msv081, PMC 4833068, PMID 25837578

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