Bassia

Bassia

Synonymy

Bassia All. in Mélanges Philos. Math. Soc. Roy. Turin 3: 177. 1766 sec. Kadereit & Freitag (2011)

• Type: Bassia muricata (L.) Asch.

• =Kochia Roth in J. Bot. (Schrader) 1800(1): 307. 1801 syn. sec. Kühn (1993)
• Type: Kochia arenaria (Maerkl.) Roth

• =Echinopsilon Moq. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., ser. 2, 2: 127. 1834, nom. illeg., syn. sec. Kühn (1993)

• =Londesia Fisch. & C.A.Mey. in Index Seminum [St.Petersburg (Petropolitanus)] 2: 40. 1836 syn. sec. Kühn (1993)
• Type: Londesia eriantha Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

• =Panderia Fisch. & C.A.Mey. in Index Seminum [St.Petersburg (Petropolitanus)] 2: 21. 1836 syn. sec. Kühn (1993)
• Type: Panderia pilosa Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

• =Kirilowia Bunge in Del. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 1843: 7. 1843 syn. sec. Kühn (1993)

• =Chenoleoides (Ulbr.) Botsch. in Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 61: 1408. 1976 syn. sec. Kühn (1993)
• Type: Chenoleoides arabica (Boiss.) Botsch.

Content

• Notes

Notes

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).