Rosularia

Genus of flowering plants

Rosularia
Rosularia flowers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Subfamily: Sempervivoideae
Tribe: Sedeae
Genus: Rosularia
(DC) Stapf
Species

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Synonyms

Sempervivella Stapf[1]

Rosularia sempervivoides

Rosularia is a small genus of the family Crassulaceae. It includes about 28-35 species from Europe, the Himalayas, and northern Africa.

Taxonomy

Rosularia was originally described by De Candolle (1828) as a section of the genus Umbilicus,[2] and raised to the level of genus by Stapf (1923)[3] Thus the genus bears the botanical authority (DC) Stapf of both authors.[1]

In 1930 Berger included it in family Crassulaceae subfamily Sedoideae, as one of 9 genera.[4][5] He further divided it into two sections (Eu-Rosularia and Ornithogalopsis) and further series,[6] transferring some species of Sedum to it. Since then a number of species have been transferred in and out of the genus, including S. sempervivoides, which at one stage was placed in Prometheum.[5] The genus Sempervivella was submerged in Rosularia.[6] The genus is now placed within the Leucosedum clade, tribe Sedeae, subfamily Sempervivoideae of the Crassulaceae, but is embedded within Sedum paraphyletically.[7][1][8]

Species

Rosularia contains about 28 species. The following species and subspecies were accepted by The Plant List (2013):[9][10]

  • Rosularia adenotricha (Wall. ex Edgew.) C.-A. Jansson[11]
    • Rosularia adenotricha subsp. viguieri (Raym.-Hamet) C.-A. Jansson
  • Rosularia aizoon (Fenzl) A. Berger
  • Rosularia alpestris (Kar. & Kir.) Boriss
    • Rosularia alpestris subsp. marnieri(Raymond-Hamet ex H. Ohba) Eggli
  • Rosularia blepharophylla Eggli
  • Rosularia borissovae U.P.Pratov
  • Rosularia chrysantha (Boiss. & Heldr. ex Boiss.) Takhtajan
  • Rosularia cypria (Holmboe) Meikle
  • Rosularia davisii Muirhead
  • Rosularia elymaitica (Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss.) A. Berger
  • Rosularia glabra (Regel & Winkl.) A.Berger
  • Rosularia globulariifolia (Fenzl) A. Berger
  • Rosularia haussknechtii (Boiss. & Reut. ex Boiss.) A. Berger
  • Rosularia jaccardiana (Maire & Wilczek) H. Ohba
  • Rosularia libanotica (L.) Sam.
  • Rosularia lineata (Boiss.) A.Berger
  • Rosularia lutea Boriss.
  • Rosularia pallida (Schott & Kotschy) Stapf
  • Rosularia pallidiflora (Holmboe) Meikle
  • Rosularia persica (Boiss.) A. Berger
  • Rosularia pilosa (Fischer ex M. Bieberstein) Boriss.
  • Rosularia platyphylla (Schrenk) A.Berger
  • Rosularia radicosa (Boiss. & Hohen.) Eggli
  • Rosularia rechingeri C.-A. Jansson
  • Rosularia rosulata (Edgew.) H. Ohba
  • Rosularia schischkinii Boriss.
  • Rosularia sedoides (Decne.) H. Ohba
  • Rosularia semiensis (J. Gay ex A. Richard) H. Ohba
  • Rosularia sempervivoides (Fischer ex M. Bieberstein) Boriss.
  • Rosularia serpentinica (Werderm.) Muirhead
  • Rosularia serrata (L.) A.Berger
  • Rosularia subspicata (Freyn) Boriss.

Distribution and habitat

Rosularia is found in arid and semi-arid regions from N. Africa (Morocco, Ethiopia), through the eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia (north of Tien Shan and east of W Himalaya), including Pakistan.[6][5]

Ecology

Rosularia is an important larval host for the Central Asian butterfly Parnassius apollonius.[12]

Uses

A number of species are cultivated as ornamental garden plants, and have been used in traditional medicine.[5]

References

Bibliography

Books
  • Berger, A. (1930). "Crassulacaeae". In Engler, Adolf; Prantl, Karl Anton (eds.). Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Vol. 18A. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. pp. 352–483.
  • de Candolle, A. P. (1828). "Crassulaceae". Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta. Vol. 3. Paris: Treuttel et Würtz. pp. 381–414.
  • Tuzov, V. K. (1997). Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and Adjacent Territories: Vol. 1 Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae. Coronet Books Incorporated. ISBN 978-954-642-018-3.
  • Thiede, J; Eggli, U (2007). "Crassulaceae". In Kubitzki, Klaus (ed.). Berberidopsidales, Buxales, Crossosomatales, Fabales p.p., Geraniales, Gunnerales, Myrtales p.p., Proteales, Saxifragales, Vitales, Zygophyllales, Clusiaceae Alliance, Passifloraceae Alliance, Dilleniaceae, Huaceae, Picramniaceae, Sabiaceae. Springer. pp. 83–119. ISBN 978-3540322146. (full text at ResearchGate)
Articles
  • Mayuzumi, Shinzo; Ohba, Hideaki (2004). "The Phylogenetic Position of Eastern Asian Sedoideae (Crassulaceae) Inferred from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences". Systematic Botany. 29 (3): 587–598. doi:10.1600/0363644041744329. ISSN 0363-6445. JSTOR 25063994. S2CID 84319808.
  • Ohba, H (1978). "Generic and infrageneric classification of the old world sedoideae crassulaceae". Journal of the Faculty of Science University of Tokyo Section III Botany 12(4): 139-193. 12 (4): 139–193.
  • Sarwar, Ghulam Rasool; Qaiser, Muhammad (2012). "A numerical taxonomy of the genus Rosularia (DC.) Stapf from Pakistan and Kashmir" (PDF). Pak. J. Bot. 44 (1): 349–354. S2CID 32097729. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-10-01.
  • Stapf, Otto (1923). "Sempervivella alba". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 149: 1–4.
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Taxon identifiers
Rosularia
Umbilicus sect. Rosularia


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