Cardionema

Cardionema

Synonymy

Cardionema DC., Prodr. 3: 372. 1828 sec. Bittrich (1993c)

• Type: Cardionema multicaule DC.

• =Acanthonychia (DC.) Rohrb., Fl. Bras. 14(2): 248. 1872 syn. sec. Govaerts 1995
• Type: not designated

• =Pentacaena Bartling syn. sec. Bittrich (1993c)
• Type: Cardionema polycnemoides Bartling

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Notes

Six species found from western North America south to Chile. Sosa & al. (2006) found Cardionema and Scopulophila clustered with Cerdia. Greenberg & Donoghue (2011) showed Cardionema belonging to a poorly resolved group of genera in the tribe Polycarpaeae.