Gomphrenoideae
The Gomphrenoideae are a subfamily of the family of Amaranthaceae ( Amaranthaceae ).
Description
Characteristic of the Gomphrenoideae are dust bag with only one bar and two pollen sacs.
Photosynthetic
The Gomphrenoideae a large number of species belongs with C4 photosynthesis.
Occurrence
The center of diversity is in Central America, Mexico and the dry forests and thorn bush savannahs of South America.
System
The subfamily Gomphrenoideae 1893 by Hans Schinz in Engler and Prantl ( eds): The natural plant families erected Volume 3, 1a, p 97.
The subfamily forms to Sanchez Del Pino - (2009 ) is a monophyletic taxon with about 19 genera and about 300 to 400 species. Three clades but The previous division into two tribes ( Gomphreneae and Pseudoplantageae ) does not correspond to the phylogenetic relationships instead recognized:
- Cladus Iresinoids ( Schwestercladus the other two clades ): Irish Ella Suess. With the only kind: Irish Ella chrysotricha Suess. It is native to the rainforests of Ecuador. It belongs to phylogenetic studies of Iresine.
- Woehleria serpyllifolia Griseb. It occurs in coastal mountain in Cuba. It belongs to phylogenetic studies of Iresine.
- Papageienblatt ( Alternanthera Forssk, Syn. Brandesia Mart. ): With about 100 to 200 species, especially in America, in Africa and Australia, for example: Alligator weed ( Alternanthera philoxeroides Griseb. )
- Blutaparon Raf. (formerly Philoxerus R.Br. ): With about five species on the coasts of North and Central America, West Africa, Micronesia and Japan, for example: Blutaparon rigidum ( BLRob. & Greenm. ) Mears: This extinct species was endemic to San Salvador, which belongs to the Galápagos Islands.
- Froelichiella grisea REFr. It is native to Brazil.
- Cute globe amaranth ( Gomphrena pulchella )
- Low- Lying globe amaranth ( Gomphrena decumbens )
- True globe amaranth ( Gomphrena globosa )
- Heba Thode peruviana Pedersen: It is native to Peru.
- Pseudogomphrena scandens REFr. It is native to Brazil.
- Pseudoplantago bisteriliflora C.C.Towns.
- Quaternella confusa Pedersen
- Quaternella ephedroides Pedersen
- Xerosiphon angustiflorus ( Mart. ) Pedersen
- Xerosiphon aphyllus ( Pohl ex Moq. ) Pedersen
- Xerosiphon gracilis Turcz.