Smelowskia

Genus of Brassicaceae plants

Smelowskia
Smelowskia calycina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Smelowskia
C.A.Mey.[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Chrysanthemopsis Rech.f.
  • Ermania Cham., Linnaea
  • Ermania Cham. ex Botsch.,
  • Gorodkovia Botsch. & Karav.
  • Hediniopsis Botsch. & V.V.Petrovsky
  • Redowskia Cham. & Schltdl.</sma
  • Sinosophiopsis Al-Shehbaz
  • Sophiopsis O.E.Schulz

Smelowskia, sometimes called false candytufts, is a genus of flowering plants in the crucifer family Brassicaceae,[3] native to mountains and arctic regions of Asia and western North America. They may or may not be of Beringian origin.[4]

Species

Currently accepted species include:[2]

  • Smelowskia alba (Pall.) Regel
  • Smelowskia altaica (Pobed.) Botsch.
  • Smelowskia americana Rydb.
  • Smelowskia annua Rupr.
  • Smelowskia bartholomewii (Al-Shehbaz) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia bifurcata (Turcz. ex Ledeb.) Botsch.
  • Smelowskia borealis (Greene) W.H.Drury & Rollins
  • Smelowskia calycina (Stephan ex Willd.) C.A.Mey.
  • Smelowskia czukotica (Botsch. & V.V.Petrovsky) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia flavissima Kar. & Kir.
  • Smelowskia furcata (Al-Shehbaz) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia heishuiensis (W.T.Wang) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia inopinata (Kom.) Kom.
  • Smelowskia jacutica (Botsch. & Karav.) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia johnsonii G.A.Mulligan
  • Smelowskia media (W.H.Drury & Rollins) E.M.Velichkin
  • Smelowskia micrantha (Botsch. & Vved.) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
  • Smelowskia mongolica Kom.
  • Smelowskia ovalis M.E.Jones
  • Smelowskia parryoides (Cham.) Polunin
  • Smelowskia pectinata (Bunge) E.M.Velichkin
  • Smelowskia porsildii (W.H.Drury & Rollins) Jurtzev
  • Smelowskia pyriformis W.H.Drury & Rollins
  • Smelowskia sisymbrioides (Regel & Herder) Paulsen
  • Smelowskia sophiifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Al-Shehbaz & Warwick
Smelowskia borealis on the slopes of Denali

References

  1. ^ C.F.von Ledebour, Fl. Altaic. 3: 165 (1831)
  2. ^ a b "Smelowskia C.A.Mey. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  3. ^ Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.; Warwick, Suzanne I. (July 2006). "A SYNOPSIS OF SMELOWSKIA (BRASSICACEAE)". Harvard Papers in Botany. 11 (1): 91–99.
  4. ^ Carlsen, Tor; Elven, Reidar; Brochmann, Christian (2010). "The evolutionary history of Beringian Smelowskia (Brassicaceae) inferred from combined microsatellite and DNA sequence data". Taxon. 59 (2): 427–438. doi:10.1002/tax.592008.
Taxon identifiers
Smelowskia