Polycarpaea

Polycarpaea

Synonymy

Polycarpaea Lam. in J. Hist. Nat. 2: 3, 5. 1792, nom. cons., sec. Bittrich (1993c)

• Type: Polycarpaea teneriffae Lam.

• =Robbairea Boiss., Fl. Orient. 1: 735. 1867 syn. sec. Duke (1961a)
• Type: Robbairea prostrata (Forssk.) Boiss.

• =Reesia Ewart in Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria n.s., 26: 9. 1913 syn. sec. Bittrich (1993c)
• Type: Reesia erecta Ewart

Content

• Notes

Notes

A paleotropic group of 50+ species. Kool & al. (2007, 2012) found it to be polyphyletic; additional sampling is required to treat the genus, resolve infrageneric relationships, and decide how some small genera (e.g, Haya, Xerotia) should be treated.