Syrmatium
Syrmatium was a formerly accepted genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to the southwestern United States., it was considered a synonym of Acmispon by Plants of the World Online, and only Acmispon was recognized by the Jepson eFlora.
Taxonomy
Syrmatium belonged to a group of species traditionally placed in the tribe Loteae of the subfamily Faboideae. The taxonomy of this group is complex, and its division into genera has varied considerably. Many species of Syrmatium were formerly placed in a broadly defined genus Lotus. A molecular phylogenetic study in 2000 based on nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences confirmed the view that the "New World" and "Old World" species of Lotus did not belong in the same genus. Syrmatium was monophyletic.Species
Species that have been placed in Syrmatium include:- Syrmatium argophyllum Greene = Acmispon argophyllus Brouillet
- Syrmatium cytisoides Greene = Acmispon cytisoides Brouillet
- Syrmatium decumbens Greene = Acmispon decumbens Govaerts
- Syrmatium distichum Greene = Acmispon distichus Brouillet
- Syrmatium haydonii Brand = Acmispon haydonii Brouillet
- Syrmatium junceum Benth.) Greene = Acmispon junceus Brouillet
- Syrmatium leucophyllum Brand = Acmispon procumbens Brouillet var. procumbens
- Syrmatium micranthum Greene = Acmispon micranthus Brouillet
- Syrmatium prostratum Greene = Acmispon prostratus Brouillet
- Syrmatium tomentosum Vogel = Acmispon tomentosus Govaerts
- Syrmatium veatchii Greene = Acmispon dendroideus var. veatchii Brouillet
- Syrmatium watsonii Brand = Hosackia alamosana Rose