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Pteranthus
Sign in to savePteranthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. The only species is Pteranthus dichotomus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyCaryophyllaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Collections
- CM, VT
- Recorded in
- Iran, Lebanon, Israel
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Pteranthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. The only species is Pteranthus dichotomus.
Its native range is Canary Islands, the Mediterranean to Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pteranthus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.