Drymocallis Explained

Drymocallis is a genus of plants formerly (and sometimes still) included with the typical cinquefoils (Potentilla). It contains three species known or suspected to be protocarnivorous,[1] but more cinquefoils might eventually be moved here:[2] [3]

Taxonomy

The genus Drymocallis was described by Per Axel Rydberg in 1908 with him crediting Jules Pierre Fourreau. DNA sequence data suggests they are more closely related to Chamaerhodos and Dasiphora than to species such as Potentilla reptans (creeping cinquefoil) which make up the bulk of Potentilla.

According to Plants of the World Online the genus includes 24 species.

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Notes and References

  1. George G. Spomer . 1999 . Evidence of protocarnivorous capabilities in Geranium viscosissimum and Potentilla arguta and other sticky plants . . 160 . 1 . 98–101 . 10.1086/314109.
  2. Torsten Eriksson . Malin S. Hibbs . Anne D. Yoder . Charles F. Delwiche . Michael J. Donoghue . 2003 . The phylogeny of Rosoideae (Rosaceae) based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and the trnL/F region of chloroplast DNA . . 164 . 2 . 197–211 . 10.1086/346163 .
  3. Web site: . . Drymocallis Fourr. ex Rydb. . November 4, 2011 . October 27, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141027095712/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?19784 . October 27, 2014 . dead .

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