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Petrophyton
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Petrophytum (orth. var. Petrophyton) is a small genus of plants in the rose family known as the rock spiraeas or rockmats. These are low mat-forming shrubs which send up erect stems bearing spike inflorescences of flowers. The brushy flowers are white and have many stamens and hairy, thready pistils. Rockmats are native to western North America.
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Petrophytum es un género con tres especies de plantas perteneciente a la familia de las rosáceas.[2] Índice 1 Taxonomía 2 Especies 3 Referencias 4 Enlaces externos Taxonomía Petrophytum fue descrita por (Nutt.) Rydb. y publicado en Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 1: 206–207, en el año 1900.[3] Especies Petrophytum acuminatum Petrophytum caespitosum Petrophytum hendersonii Referencias ↑ D. Potter, T. Eriksson, R. C. Evans, S. Oh, J. E. E. Smedmark, D. R. Morgan, M. Kerr, K. R. Robertson, M. Arsenault, T. A. Dickinson & C. S. Campbell (2007). «Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae» (PDF). Plant Systematics and Evolution (en inglés) 266 (1–2): 5-43. doi:10.1007/s00606-007-0539-9. Nótese que esta publicación es anterior al Congreso Internacional de Botánica de 2011 que determinó que la subfamilia combinada, a la que este artículo se refiere como Spiraeoideae, debía denominarse Amygdaloideae. ↑ Petrophytum en PlantList ↑ Petrophytum en Trópicos
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- Rosaceae
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- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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Petrophytum (orth. var. Petrophyton) is a small genus of plants in the rose family known as the rock spiraeas or rockmats. These are low mat-forming shrubs which send up erect stems bearing spike inflorescences of flowers. The brushy flowers are white and have many stamens and hairy, thready pistils. Rockmats are native to western North America.
Species: Petrophytum caespitosum — mat rock spiraea Petrophytum cinerascens — halfshrub rockmat, Chelan rockmat Petrophytum hendersonii — Olympic Mountain rockmat
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