Colobanthus
Colobanthus is a large genus of small, cushion-like herbaceous plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, sometimes known as "pearlworts", a name they share with plants of the related genus Sagina. C. quitensis is the world's southernmost dicot, and one of only two native extant flowering plants of Antarctica.
Selected species
- Colobanthus acicularis Hook. f.
- Colobanthus affinis Hook. f.
- Colobanthus apetalus Druce synonym = Spergula apetala
- Colobanthus bolivianus Pax
- Colobanthus brevisepalus Kirk
- Colobanthus buchananii Kirk
- Colobanthus caespitosus Colenso
- Colobanthus canaliculatus Kirk
- Colobanthus curtisiae J.G. West
- Colobanthus diffusus Hook. f.
- Colobanthus hookeri Cheeseman
- Colobanthus kerguelensis Hook. f.
- Colobanthus lycopodoides Griseb.
- Colobanthus masonae L.B. Moore
- Colobanthus monticola Petrie
- Colobanthus muelleri Kirk = C. billardieri var. brachypoda
- Colobanthus muscoides Hook. f.
- Colobanthus nivicola M. Gray
- Colobanthus pulvinatus F. Muell.
- Colobanthus quitensis Bartl., = C. alatus, C. aretioides, C. billardieri, C. cherlerioides, C. crassifolius, C. crassifolius var. aretioides, C. maclovianus, C. meingeni, C. quitensis var. alatus, C. saginoides, Sagina crassifolia, S. quitensis, Spergula affinis?
- Colobanthus repens Colenso
- Colobanthus squarrosus Cheeseman
- Colobanthus strictus Cheeseman
- Colobanthus subulatus Hook. f.
- Colobanthus wallii Petrie