Xerosiphon

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Xerosiphon

Xerosiphon Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 16: 55. 1843 sec. Hernández-Ledesma & al. 20151 wfo-4000040965
      Type: Xerosiphon gracilis Turcz.
  • 1. Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., von Mering, S., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler, R., Ocampo, G. & Ochoterena, H. 2015: A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. – Willdenowia 45(3): 281-383. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.45.45301

Notes

A well circumscribed monophyletic genus with two species that was long treated as part of a widely circumscribed genus Gomphrena Mart. but resurrected by Pedersen (1990) because of its morphological distinctness (gamopetalous perianth, cauline leaves reduced to scales). Molecular phylogenetic analyses (Sage & al. 2007; Sánchez del-Pino & al. 2009) depicted Xerosiphon as isolated lineage in the gomphrenoid clade of subfamily Gomphrenoideae.A,B,C,D

Bibliography

A. Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., von Mering, S., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler, R., Ocampo, G. & Ochoterena, H. 2015: A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. – Willdenowia 45(3): 281-383. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.45.45301
B. Pedersen, T. M. 1990: Studies in South American Amaranthaceae III (including one amphi-Atlantic species). – Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Section B, Adansonia sér. 4 12(1): 69-97
C. Sage, R. F., Sage, T.L., Pearcy, R.W. & Borsch, T. 2007: The taxonomic distribution of C4 photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae sensu stricto. – American Journal of Botany 94(12): 1992-2003. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.94.12.1992
D. Sánchez-del Pino, I., Borsch, T. & Motley, T.J. 2009: trnL-F and rpl16 sequence data and dense taxon sampling reveal monophyly of unilocular anthered Gomphrenoideae (Amaranthaceae) and an improved picture of their internal relationships. – Systematic Botany 34(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364409787602401