Petrorhagia cretica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Caryophyllaceae
Tribus: Caryophylleae
Genus: Petrorhagia
Species: Petrorhagia cretica

Name

Petrorhagia cretica (L.) P.W.Ball & Heywood, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 3: 142 (1964).

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Saponaria cretica L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2: 584 (1762).
• Homotypic
  • Gypsophila cretica (L.) Sm., in J.Sibthorp & J.E.Smith, Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1: 280 (1809).
  • Fiedleria cretica (L.) Ovcz., Fl. Tadzhiksk. S.S.R. 3: 608 (1968).
  • Tunica cretica (L.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey., Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 4: 49 (1838).
• Heterotypic
  • Gypsophila pachygona (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) D.Dietr., Syn. Pl. 2: 1543 (1840).
  • Tunica brachypetala Jaub. & Spach, Ill. Pl. Orient. 1: 10 (1842).
  • Tunica pachygona Fisch. & C.A.Mey., Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 4: 50 (1838).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Europe Southeastern Europe Greece. Asia-Temperate Middle Asia Turkmenistan. Caucasus Transcaucasus (Armenia, Abkhaziya, Adzhariya, Georgia). Western Asia Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine (Israel, Jordan), Turkey. Arabian Peninsula Saudi Arabia. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Additional references

• Fedtschenko, B.A. (ed.) 1948. Flora Turkmenii III [Amaranthaceae – Resedaceae]. 280 pp. Turkmenskoe gosudarstvennoe izd., Ashkhabad. DJVU Reference page. 
• Meikle, R.D. 1977. Flora of Cyprus. Volume One (Pinaceae to Theligonaceae). XII, 832 pp. Bentham-Moxon Trust & Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London 1977. ISBN 0-9504876-3-5 Reference page. 
• Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M. & Long, G. (eds.) 1984. Med-Checklist. A critical inventory of vascular plants of the circum-mediterranean countries. Vol. 1: Pteridophyta (ed. 2), Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones (Acanthaceae – Cneoraceae). c + 330 pp., Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Genève 1984. ISBN 2-8277-0151-0. Online version. Reference page. 
• Strid, A. & Tan, K. (eds.) 1997. Flora Hellenica. Volume One (Gymnospermae to Caryophyllaceae). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 547 pp. ISBN 3-87429-391-2. Reference page. 
• Llewellyn, O.A., Hall, M., Miller, A.G., Al-Abbasi, T.M., Al-Wetaid, A.H., Al-Harbi, R.J. & Al-Shammari, K.F. 2011. Important plant areas in the Arabian Peninsula. 4. Jabal Aja’. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 68(2): 199–224. DOI: 10.1017/S0960428611000059 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.) 2012. Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul. ISBN 978-605-60425-7-7. Online edition. Reference page. 
• Townsend, C.C., Melzheimer, V., Kandemir, A., Ghazanfar, S.A. & Haloob, A. 2016. Caryophyllaceae. Pp. 6–123 in Ghazanfar, S.A. & Edmondson, J.R. (eds.), Flora of Iraq. Volume Five, Part One. Elatinaceae to Sphenocleaceae. 284 pp. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad. ISBN 978-1-84246-594-3 Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Petrorhagia cretica in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 May 11. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2020. Petrorhagia cretica. Published online. Accessed: 11 May 2020.