Nitrophila

Nitrophila

Synonymy

Nitrophila S.Watson, Botany [Fortieth Parallel]: 297. 1871 sec. Masson & Kadereit (2013)

• ≡Banalia sect. Idiopsis Moq., Prodr. 13(2): 279. 1849 syn. sec. Masson & Kadereit (2013)
• Type: Nitrophila occidentalis (Moq.) S.Watson
• Type: Nitrophila occidentalis (Moq.) S.Watson

Content

• Notes

Notes

Polycnemoideae. Nitrophila consists of four (to eight) species distributed in western North America and South America, and the genus represents a classical example of an amphitropical desert disjunction (Masson & Kadereit 2013). Nitrophila shows leaf anatomical adaptations to physiological drought.