Gymnocarpos

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Caryophyllaceae
Tribus: Paronychieae
Genus: Gymnocarpos
Species: G. argenteus – G. bracteatus – G. decandrus – G. dhofarensis – G. kuriensis – G. mahranus – G. parvibractus – G. rotundifolius – G. sclerocephalus
Name

Gymnocarpos Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 65. (1775)

Type species: Gymnocarpos decandrus Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 65. (1775)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Sclerocephalus Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 1, 3: 12. (1843)
Lochia Balf. f. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 12: 409. (1884)

References

Forsskål, P. (†). 1775. Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas per Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit, illustravit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Ex officina Mölleri, Hauniae [Copenhagen]. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.41 BHL Reference page. : 65.
Hassler, M. 2017. Gymnocarpos. 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. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2017 May 22. Reference page.
Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Mering, S. v., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler R., Ocampo G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R. K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B. O. & Uotila, P. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45(3): 281–383. DOI: 10.3372/wi.45.45301 Open access Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Gymnocarpos. Published online. Accessed: May 22 2017.
Tropicos.org 2017. Gymnocarpos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 30 May 2017.

Gymnocarpos is a genus of plants in the family Caryophyllaceae.
Selected species

It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):

Gymnocarpos bracteatus (Balf.f.) Thulin
Gymnocarpos kuriensis (Radcl.-Sm.) Thulin

References