Macarthuriaceae

Macarthuriaceae is a family of plants in the order Caryophyllales and consists of a single genus, Macarthuria.

Macarthuriaceae
Macarthuria australis Hügel ex Endl.[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Macarthuriaceae
Christenh.[2][3]
Type genus
Macarthuria
Genera

Macarthuria

Description

Macarthuriaceae are rigid or wiry, rush-like herbs or subshrubs with green stems and reduced leaves.[3][5] The small flowers have five perianth members, sometimes also five "petals", and eight stamens fused at the base.[5]

Taxonomy

In 2009, Macarthuria was placed with Limeum in the Limeaceae, based on its morphology, but at that time no molecular material of Macarthuria had been examined.[6] Prior to this, Endress and Bittrich had placed it in the family Molluginaceae.[7] However, in 2011, molecular evidence was published, showing that Macarthuria is sister to all core Caryophyllales.[8][9] Thus, Macarthuria needed to be placed in a family of its own, Macarthuriaceae.[3][2]

References
  1. "Macarthuria australis". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  2. Stevens, P. F. (July 2017). "Macarthuriaceae (Caryophyllales)". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  3. Christenhusz, M.J.M.; Brockington, S.F.; Christin, P.-A.; Sage, R.F. (2014). "On the disintegration of Molluginaceae: a new genus and family (Kewa, Kewaceae) segregated from Hypertelis, and placement of Macarthuria in Macarthuriaceae". Phytotaxa. 181 (4): 238. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.181.4.4. ISSN 1179-3163.
  4. "Macarthuria". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  5. Lepschi, B.J. (1996) A taxonomic revision of Macarthuria (Molluginaceae) in Western Australia. Nuytsia 11: 37-54. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  6. "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. 2009. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. ISSN 0024-4074.
  7. Endress, M.E., & Bittrich, V. (1993) Molluginaceae. Pp. 419-425, in Kubitzki, K., Rohwer, J.G., & Bittrich, V. (eds), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. II. Flowering Plants: Dicotyledons, Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid Families.Springer, Berlin.
  8. Brockington, S.F.; Walker, R.H.; Glover, B.J.; Soltis, P.S.; Soltis, D.E. (2011). "Complex pigment evolution in the Caryophyllales". New Phytologist. 190 (4): 854–864. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03687.x. ISSN 0028-646X.
  9. Christin, P.-A.; Sage, T.L.; Edwards, E.J.; Ogburn, R.M.; Khoshravesh, R.; Sage, R.F. (2011). "COMPLEX EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF C3-C4 INTERMEDIATE FORMS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN MOLLUGINACEAE". Evolution. 65 (3): 643–660. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01168.x. ISSN 0014-3820.
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