Cyathula

Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales |
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| Classification System: APG IV
Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Cyathula
Species: C. achyranthoides –
C. aethiopica –
C. angolensis –
C. biflora –
C. brevispicata –
C. braunii –
C. capitata –
C. carsonii –
C. ceylanica –
C. confusa –
C. coriacea –
C. cylindrica –
C. divulsa –
C. elegantissima –
C. erinacea –
C. fernando-poensis –
C. heudelotii –
C. hildebrandtii –
C. humbertiana –
C. involucrata –
C. lanceolata –
C. madagascariensis –
C. meruensis –
C. mollis –
C. natalensis –
C. obtusifolia –
C. officinalis –
C. perrieriana –
C. pobeguinii –
C. polycephala –
C. porphyrargyrea –
C. prostrata –
C. quadrangula –
C. ramulosa –
C. richardsiae –
C. rubrolutea –
C. semirosulata –
C. sphaerocephala –
C. tomentosa –
C. trichinioides –
C. triuncinata –
C. triuncinella –
C. uncinulata –
C. welwitschii
Check:
C. geminata
Name
[edit]Cyathula Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 11: 548. (1826), nom. cons.
- Type: Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume
Synonyms
[edit]- Achyranthes sect. Pandiaka Moq. in Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 310. (1849)
- Pandiaka (Moq.) Hook.f. in Bentham & Hooker, Gen. Pl. 3(1): 35. (1880)
- Type: Pandiaka involucrata (Moq.) B.D.Jacks.
- Pandiaka (Moq.) Hook.f. in Bentham & Hooker, Gen. Pl. 3(1): 35. (1880)
- Sericocomopsis Schinz, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 21: 184. (1895).
- Type (designated by Greuter & al. in Regnum Veg. 129 [NCU-3. Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera]: 1095. 1993): Sericocomopsis hildebrandtii Schinz
- Argyrostachys Lopr. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30(1): 108. (1901)
- Type: Argyrostachys splendens Lopr.
- Nelsia Schinz, Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 56: 247. (1911)
- Type: Nelsia quadrangula (Engl.) Schinz
- “Polyscalis Wall.”, Numer. List: No. 6939. 1832, not validly published.
Homonyms
[edit]- Cyathula Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 1: 101 (1790), nom. rej. vs. Cyathula Blume
- Type: Cyathula geniculata Lour.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Bentham, G. & Hooker, J.D. 1880. Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata definita. Vol. 3, pars 1, sistens Dicotyledonum Monochlamydearum ordines XXXVI (Nyctagnieas – Ceratophylleas) et Gymnospermearum ordines III (Gnetaceas – Cycadaceas). A. Black, 459 pp. Londini [London]. BHL Reference page.
- Blume, C.L. 1826 ["1825"]. Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië. 11de Stuk. Pp. 529–577. Ter Lands Drukkerij, Batavia. BHL Reference page.
- Loureiro, J. de. 1790. Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quibus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi Imperio, Africa orientali, Indiaeque locis variis. Omnes dispositae secundum systema sexuale linnaeanum. Tomus I. Pp. I–XX, 1–353. Typis, et expensis academicis, Ulyssipone [Lisbon]. BHL Reference page.
- Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Amarantaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 231–424. Masson, Paris. BHL. Reference page.
- Schinz, H. 1895. Amarantaceae africanae. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 21: 178–191. BHL Reference page.
- Schinz, H. 1911. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der afrikanischen Flora XXIV. (Thellung, A. & Schinz, H.) Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 56: 229–268. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Sukhorukov, A.P., Sennikov, A.N., Cheek, M., Nusbaumer, L., Kushunina, M. & Timonin, A.C. 2025. Taxonomic revision of the Cyathula achyranthoides group (Amaranthaceae, Achyranthoids) in continental Africa and Madagascar. PhytoKeys 260: 237–268. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.260.162975 Reference page.
- Di Vincenzo, V., Berendsohn, W., Wondafrash, M. & Borsch, T. 2025. Phylogenetics and morphological character evolution in the achyranthoid clade (Amaranthaceae): Evidence to re-circumscribe the genera Achyranthes and Cyathula and to resurrect a third species of the former genus Sericocomopsis in East Africa. Taxon 74(1): 66–100. DOI: 10.1002/tax.13284
Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Govaerts, R. et al. 2025. Cyathula in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2025 Nov. 27. Reference page.
- International Plant Names Index. 2025. Cyathula. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 27 2025. Reference page.