Ceratocarpus

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Chenopodioideae
Tribus: Axyrideae
Genus: Ceratocarpus

Species: C. arenarius

Names in synonymy: C. caputmedusae – C. maritimus – C. salinus – C. turkestanicus – C. utriculosus
Name

Ceratocarpus L., Sp. Pl. 2: 969. (1753)

Type species: Ceratocarpus arenarius L.

References
Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus II: 969. Reference page.

Additional references

Gelin Zhu, Mosyakin, S.L. & Clemants, S.E.
'eFloras 2008. Ceratocarpus in Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Freitag, H., Hedge, I.C, Jafri, S.M.H, Kothe-Heinrich, G., Omer, S. & Uotila, P. 2001. Chenopodiaceae. In: Ali, S.I. (ed.): Flora of Pakistan 204. 217 pp., Department of Botany/Missouri Botanical Press, Karachi/St. Louis, ISBN 1-930723-10-5 eFloras. Reference page. Ceratocarpus

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Ceratocarpus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Nov. 16. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Ceratocarpus. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 29 2016.
The Plant List 2013. Ceratocarpus in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 Mar. 29.
Tropicos.org 2016. Ceratocarpus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 29 Mar. 2016.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Ceratocarpus.

Ceratocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Ceratocarpus arenarius, found in Bulgaria, Romania, Crimea, Russia, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, the Altai, western Siberia, Xinjiang in China, and Mongolia.[2] A bushy herbaceous plant, no more than 30 cm tall (or wide), it is a valuable fodder for sheep, goats and horses, and it grows well in degraded and trampled soils.[3]
Species

Only one species is currently accepted, Ceratocarpus arenarius, but a number of names have been previously associated with Ceratocarpus:[4]

Ceratocarpus arenarius subsp. utriculosus (Bluket ex Krylov) Takht.
Ceratocarpus caput-medusae Bluket
Ceratocarpus maritimus Pall. ex M.Bieb.
Ceratocarpus salinus Pall.
Ceratocarpus turkestanicus Sav.-Rycz.
Ceratocarpus utriculosus Bluket ex Krylov

References

Sp. Pl.: 969 (1753)
"Ceratocarpus L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
Behnke, Roy (19 August 2008). The Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Desertification in Central Asia. ISBN 9781402085420.
"Ceratocarpus". theplantlist.org. The Plant List. Retrieved 5 August 2020.