Bartsia | |
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Bartsia alpina | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Orobanchaceae |
Tribe: | Rhinantheae |
Genus: |
Bartsia L. |
Bartsia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae.
Bartsia was named after Johann Bartsch (Latinized as Johannes Bartsius, 1709-1738), a botanist of Königsberg. The plant was named for him by his associate Carl Linnaeus, and the genus has been sometimes spelt as Bartschia. [1]
Starbia, an anagram of Bartsia, is another genus of Orobanchaceae, synonym of Alectra. [2]
The phylogeny of the genera of Rhinantheae has been explored using molecular characters. [3] [4] Bartsia belongs to the core Rhinantheae. Bartsia sensu stricto (e.g. B. alpina) is the sister genus to Odontites, Bellardia, Tozzia, Hedbergia, and Euphrasia.
Genus-level cladogram of tribe Rhinantheae. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The cladogram has been reconstructed from nuclear and plastid DNA molecular characters ( ITS, rps16 intron and trnK region). [3] [4] |
In 1990, the genus was revised to contain 49 species; 45 of them are endemic to the Andes. [5] The most familiar species might be the well-studied Bartsia alpina, which has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout northern regions of the Northern Hemisphere. [6] There are also two afromontane species, restricted to the mountains of northeastern Africa: Bartsia decurva and Bartsia longiflora. These two plants, B. alpina, and the many Andean species are three distinct lineages, making the genus polyphyletic. [7] [4] [8]
As a solution to the problem of Bartsia polyphyly, two taxonomic adjustments have been proposed.
Accepted species names include the following taxa classified according to geographic distribution groups. [9] [8]
Bartsia | |
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Bartsia alpina | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Orobanchaceae |
Tribe: | Rhinantheae |
Genus: |
Bartsia L. |
Bartsia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae.
Bartsia was named after Johann Bartsch (Latinized as Johannes Bartsius, 1709-1738), a botanist of Königsberg. The plant was named for him by his associate Carl Linnaeus, and the genus has been sometimes spelt as Bartschia. [1]
Starbia, an anagram of Bartsia, is another genus of Orobanchaceae, synonym of Alectra. [2]
The phylogeny of the genera of Rhinantheae has been explored using molecular characters. [3] [4] Bartsia belongs to the core Rhinantheae. Bartsia sensu stricto (e.g. B. alpina) is the sister genus to Odontites, Bellardia, Tozzia, Hedbergia, and Euphrasia.
Genus-level cladogram of tribe Rhinantheae. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The cladogram has been reconstructed from nuclear and plastid DNA molecular characters ( ITS, rps16 intron and trnK region). [3] [4] |
In 1990, the genus was revised to contain 49 species; 45 of them are endemic to the Andes. [5] The most familiar species might be the well-studied Bartsia alpina, which has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout northern regions of the Northern Hemisphere. [6] There are also two afromontane species, restricted to the mountains of northeastern Africa: Bartsia decurva and Bartsia longiflora. These two plants, B. alpina, and the many Andean species are three distinct lineages, making the genus polyphyletic. [7] [4] [8]
As a solution to the problem of Bartsia polyphyly, two taxonomic adjustments have been proposed.
Accepted species names include the following taxa classified according to geographic distribution groups. [9] [8]