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Nemacladus
Sign in to saveNemacladus is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family known generally as threadplants. Species are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. These are annual herbs with very slender, sometimes threadlike, branching stems bearing small five-lobed flowers.
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyCampanulaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 170
- With media
- 107
- Family
- Campanulaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, CAS, RSA, MO, LOB, OBI
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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Nemacladus is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family known generally as threadplants. Species are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. These are annual herbs with very slender, sometimes threadlike, branching stems bearing small five-lobed flowers.
==Taxonomy== The genus was erected by Thomas Nuttall in 1842. It is placed in the small subfamily Nemacladoideae of the family Campanulaceae.
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