Bassia
Bassia in Mélanges Philos. Math. Soc. Roy. Turin 3: 177. 1766 sec. Kadereit & Freitag 20111
- Type: Bassia muricata
- 1. Kadereit, G. & Freitag, H. E. 2011: Molecular phylogeny of Camphorosmeae (Camphorosmoideae, Chenopodiaceae): Implications for biogeography, evolution of C4-photosynthesis and taxonomy. – Taxon 60(1): 51-78. http://doi.org/10.1002/tax.601006
- =Kochia in J. Bot. (Schrader) 1800(1): 307. 1801 syn. sec. Kühn 19934
- Type: Kochia arenaria
- =Echinopsilon in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 2: 127. 1834, nom. illeg., syn. sec. Kühn 19935
- =Londesia in Index Seminum St. Petersburg (Petropolitanus) 2: 40. 1836 syn. sec. Kühn 19936
- Type: Londesia eriantha
- =Panderia in Index Seminum St. Petersburg (Petropolitanus) 2: 21. 1836 syn. sec. Kühn 19937
- Type: Panderia pilosa
- =Kirilowia in Del. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 1843: 7. 1843 syn. sec. Kühn 19938
- =Chenolea sect. Chenoleoides syn. sec. Kadereit & Freitag 20119
- ≡Chenoleoides in Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 61: 1408. 1976 syn. sec. Kühn 199310
- ≡Bassia subsect. Chenoleoides in Feddes Repert. 89(2-3): 109. 1978 syn. sec. Kadereit & Freitag 20119
- Type: Chenoleoides arabica
- 9. Kadereit, G. & Freitag, H. E. 2011: Molecular phylogeny of Camphorosmeae (Camphorosmoideae, Chenopodiaceae): Implications for biogeography, evolution of C4-photosynthesis and taxonomy. – Taxon 60(1): 51-78. http://doi.org/10.1002/tax.601006, 10. Kühn, U. 1993: Chenopodiaceae, pp. 253-281. – In: Kubitzki, K., Rohwer, J.G. & Bittrich, V. (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2. – Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer
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Bassia belongs to Camphorosmoideae-Camphorosmeae and in the circumscription adopted here consists of c. 20 C4 annuals or perennials. The genus is distributed from the western Mediterranean to East Asia (Kadereit & Freitag 2011), with the main centre of diversity in Central Asia. It represents an interesting example of C4 leaf type diversity (Freitag & Kadereit 2014) and multiple reduction of water storage tissue (Akhani & Khoshravesh 2013; Kadereit & al. 2014).