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Polyctenium
Sign in to savePolyctenium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It contains a single species, Polyctenium fremontii, the desert combleaf, a small and compact plant native to the northern Great Basin region of the Western United States. The plants are known by the common name combleaf, owing to the resemblance of their deeply lobed leaves to a comb. It grows in sagebrush shrub steppe in northeastern California, southeastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho, and northwestern Nevada.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Polyctenium, and connects out to California, plant and Oregon.
It sits within the topics Brassicaceae, Flora of California and Flora of Idaho.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderBrassicales
- FamilyBrassicaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Collections
- WTU, BRIT
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- MDF Polyctenium fremontii 01.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- taxon common name
- combleaf
- Commons category
- Polyctenium
- taxon name
- Polyctenium
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Polyctenium
Sources (1)
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Gallery (2)
Available in 7 languages
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