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Agdestis clematidea
Sign in to saveAgdestis is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species Agdestis clematidea, a vine native to Mexico & Central America, and introduced to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas (though potentially native to the latter). Its common name rockroot refers to the large boulder-like root.
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyAgdestidaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 451
- With media
- 174
- Family
- Agdestidaceae
- Collections
- INECOL, SERBO, FC-UNAM, UACH, UCR, UTEP
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Agdestis is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species Agdestis clematidea, a vine native to Mexico & Central America, and introduced to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas (though potentially native to the latter). Its common name rockroot refers to the large boulder-like root.
==Taxonomy== Agdestis is usually placed in the Phytolaccaceae family. Its classification is uncertain, however, as several studies of molecular phylogenetics have found it to be possibly the sister taxon of Sarcobatus, also of uncertain classification and often placed in its own family, Sarcobataceae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agdestis clematidea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.