Stylidium sect. Alsinoida

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Alsinoida
Stylidium alsinoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Stylidiaceae
Subfamily: Stylidioideae
Genus: Stylidium
Subgenus: Andersonia
Section: Alsinoida
(Mildbr. 1908) A.R.Bean 2000
Type species
Stylidium alsinoides
R.Br.
Species

Stylidium alsinoides
Stylidium cordifolium
Stylidium fluminense
Stylidium javanicum
Stylidium tenerrimum

Stylidium section Alsinoida is a taxonomic rank under Stylidium subgenus Andersonia. In his 1908 monograph on the family Stylidiaceae, Johannes Mildbraed had established the subgenus Alsinoides for species related to S. alsinoides, which were morphologically similar to species of subgenus Andersonia. In 2000, A.R. Bean published a taxonomic revision of subgenus Andersonia and reduced subgenus Alsinoides to sectional rank, renamed Alsinoida.[1]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Bean, A.R. (2000). A revision of Stylidium subg. Andersonia (R.Br. ex G.Don) Mildbr. (Stylidiaceae). Austrobaileya 5(4): 589-649.


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