Oxytheca is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with seven species found in dry and temperate parts of the Americas.[1] The taxonomy of this genus is in flux, with some species often listed under tentative new names.[2]

Oxytheca
Oxytheca perfoliata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Polygonaceae
Subfamily: Eriogonoideae
Genus: Oxytheca
Nutt.
Species

Oxytheca perfoliata
etc

Species include:

References edit

  1. ^ Ertter, Barbara (1980). "A Revision of the Genus Oxytheca Nutt. (Polygonaceae)". Brittonia. 32 (1): 70–102. doi:10.2307/2806224. ISSN 0007-196X. JSTOR 2806224. S2CID 85197917.
  2. ^ Parry, C. C. (1883). "A New Species of Oxytheca". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 10 (2): 23–24. ISSN 0040-9618. JSTOR 2476948.

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