Anacampseros
Anacampseros | |
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Anacampseros rufescens | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Anacampserotaceae |
Genus: | Anacampseros L. |
Species | |
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Anacampseros L. is a genus comprising about a hundred species of small perennial succulent plants native to Southern Africa, Ethiopia and Latin America. The botanical name Anacampseros is an ancient one for herbs supposed to restore lost love.
The Australian species Grahamia australiana was at one time included in the genus Anacampseros, but the entire genus now is regarded as Southern African, and no longer includes any Australian representatives.
Description
Plants in the genus Anacampseros are perennial. In
Taxonomy
Anacampseros is now a genus in the family Anacampserotaceae, whereas until about 2010 it had been considered a member of Portulacaceae.[2]
Anacampseros Mill. is a synonym of the genus Sedum, which is in a different plant family, Crassulaceae.[2]
Species
The following species were listed as accepted in the Kew Gardens Plant list at the start of 2016.[2]
- Anacampseros affinis H.Pearson & Stephens
- Anacampseros albidiflora Poelln.
- Anacampseros albissima Marloth
- Anacampseros alstonii Schönland
- Anacampseros alta Poelln.
- Anacampseros arachnoides (Haw.) Sims
- Anacampseros bayeriana S.A.Hammer
- Anacampseros coahuilensis (S.Watson) Eggli & Nyffeler
- Anacampseros comptonii Pillans
- Anacampseros crinita Dinter
- Anacampseros decipiens Poelln.
- Anacampseros densifolia Dinter ex Poelln.
- Anacampseros depauperata (A.Berger) Poelln.
- Anacampseros dielsiana Dinter
- Anacampseros dinteri Schinz
- Anacampseros filamentosa (Haw.) Sims
- Anacampseros fissa Poelln.
- Anacampseros gracilis Poelln.
- Anacampseros herreana Poelln.
- Anacampseros hillii G.Will.
- Anacampseros karasmontana Dinter
- Anacampseros kurtzii Bacig.
- Anacampseros lanceolata (Haw.) Sweet
- Anacampseros lanigera Burch.
- Anacampseros mallei (G.Will.) G.Will.
- Anacampseros marlothii Poelln.
- Anacampseros meyeri Poelln.
- Anacampseros namaquensis H.Pearson & Stephens
- Anacampseros nebrownii Poelln.
- Anacampseros nitida Poelln.
- Anacampseros papyracea E.Mey. ex Fenzl
- Anacampseros papyracea subsp. namaensis Gerbaulet
- Anacampseros paradoxa Poelln.
- Anacampseros parviflora Poelln.
- Anacampseros pisina G.Will.
- Anacampseros prominens G.Will.
- Anacampseros quinaria E.Mey. ex Fenzl
- Anacampseros recurvata Schönland
- Anacampseros recurvata subsp. buderiana (Poelln.) Gerbaulet
- Anacampseros recurvata subsp. minuta Gerbaulet
- Anacampseros retusa Poelln.
- Anacampseros rhodesica N.E.Br.
- Anacampseros rubroviridis Poelln.
- Anacampseros rufescens (Haw.) Sweet
- Anacampseros ruschii Dinter & Poelln.
- Anacampseros schoenlandii Poelln.
- Anacampseros scopata G.Will.
- Anacampseros starkiana Poelln.
- Anacampseros subnuda Poelln.
- Anacampseros subnuda subsp. lubbersii (Bleck) Gerbaulet
- Anacampseros telephiastrum DC.
- Anacampseros tomentosa A.Berger
- Anacampseros truncata Poelln.
- Anacampseros ustulata E.Mey. ex Fenzl
- Anacampseros vanthielii G.Will.
- Anacampseros variabilis Poelln.
- Anacampseros vespertina Thulin
- Anacampseros vulcanensis Añon
- Anacampseros wischkonii Dinter & Poelln.
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Little Karoo) has pink-to-white flowers and compact, ovoid, hairy leaves, each with a minute acuminate spine.
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Anacampseros lanceolata (Western Cape) has smooth, hairless, acute-tipped leaves, and a branched inflorescence with broadly ovate petals, 30-45 stamens per flower and angular seeds.
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Anacampseros filamentosa (Northern Cape and Namibia) has hairy, rounded-truncate leaves and slender elliptic-lanceolate petals on its uniformly pink flowers.
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Eastern Cape Province) a pink-flowered species. Leaf undersides are usually reddish and it has numerous axillary hairs.
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Anacampseros subnuda has obtuse-tipped leaves, that lose their velt-hair, becoming smooth with age.
Uses and significance
Folk uses and views on the genus are incoherent and regional. Some species are regarded as narcotic or outright poisonous, but tests on sheep gave no positive result and some of the notionally toxic species are used in adulterating beer. Several species have been used in making various forms of beer, but it is not clear what the intended effect might be, although some species appears to have some activity in hydrolysing some carbohydrates. Some species are used as charms and non-specific "medicines".[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 0 621 02854 1, 1975
- ^ a b c The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed January 2016)
- ^ Watt, John Mitchell; Breyer-Brandwijk, Maria Gerdina: The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa 2nd ed Pub. E & S Livingstone 1962