Acanthophyllum
Acanthophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae with about 75 species, spread in the Irano-Turanian area.
Description
Small, shrubby perennial plants with spiny leaves. Flowers white or pink, sessile in solitary or globose heads. Spiny bracts. Calyx cylindrical, with 5 teeth. Petals 5, entire or retuse. Stamens 20. Capsule ovoid, irregularly dehiscent from base. Reniform seeds.Taxonomy
The genus was described by Carl [Anton von Meyer] and published in Verzeichness der Pflanzen des Caspischen Meeres 210, 1831. The type species is Acanthophyllum mucronatum C.A.Mey.Species
, Plants of [the World Online] accepted the following species:- Acanthophyllum acerosum
- Acanthophyllum aculeatum
- Acanthophyllum adenophorum
- Acanthophyllum afghanicum
- Acanthophyllum albidum
- Acanthophyllum allochrusoides
- Acanthophyllum andarabicum
- Acanthophyllum andersenii
- Acanthophyllum anisocladum
- Acanthophyllum aphananthum
- Acanthophyllum bilobum
- Acanthophyllum bracteatum
- Acanthophyllum brevibracteatum
- Acanthophyllum bungei
- Acanthophyllum caespitosum
- Acanthophyllum cerastioides
- Acanthophyllum coloratum
- Acanthophyllum crassifolium
- Acanthophyllum cyrtostegium
- Acanthophyllum diaphanopterum
- Acanthophyllum diezianum
- Acanthophyllum eglandulosum
- Acanthophyllum ejtehadii
- Acanthophyllum ekbergii
- Acanthophyllum elatius
- Acanthophyllum flavum
- Acanthophyllum glandulosum
- Acanthophyllum gracile
- Acanthophyllum grandiflorum
- Acanthophyllum gypsophiloides
- Acanthophyllum herniarioides
- Acanthophyllum honigbergeri
- Acanthophyllum kabulicum
- Acanthophyllum kandaharicum
- Acanthophyllum kermanense
- Acanthophyllum knorringianum
- Acanthophyllum korolkowii
- Acanthophyllum korshinskyi
- Acanthophyllum krascheninnikovii
- Acanthophyllum lamondiae
- Acanthophyllum laxiflorum
- Acanthophyllum laxiusculum
- Acanthophyllum lilacinum
- Acanthophyllum lindbergii
- Acanthophyllum longicalyx
- Acanthophyllum luteum
- Acanthophyllum maimanense
- Acanthophyllum makranicum
- Acanthophyllum mikeschinianum
- Acanthophyllum mucronatum
- Acanthophyllum myrianthum
- Acanthophyllum oppositiflorum
- Acanthophyllum pachycephalum
- Acanthophyllum pachystegium
- Acanthophyllum paniculatum
- Acanthophyllum persicum
- Acanthophyllum pleiostegium
- Acanthophyllum popovii
- Acanthophyllum pulcherrimum
- Acanthophyllum pulchrum
- Acanthophyllum pungens
- Acanthophyllum raphiophyllum
- Acanthophyllum recurvum
- Acanthophyllum sarawschanicum
- Acanthophyllum scapiflorum
- Acanthophyllum schugnanicum
- Acanthophyllum sedifolium
- Acanthophyllum sordidum
- Acanthophyllum speciosum
- Acanthophyllum spinosum
- Acanthophyllum squarrosum
- Acanthophyllum stenocalycinum
- Acanthophyllum stenostegium
- Acanthophyllum stocksianum
- Acanthophyllum subglabrum
- Acanthophyllum tadshikistanicum
- Acanthophyllum takhtajanii
- Acanthophyllum transhyrcanum
- Acanthophyllum versicolor
- Acanthophyllum verticillatum
- Acanthophyllum xanthoporphyranthum
- ''Acanthophyllum yasamin-nassehiae''