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Pteropyrum
Sign in to savePteropyrum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae. Plants of the World Online accepts seveh species, which range from Turkey to Afghanistan and Pakistan and to the Gulf States and Oman.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyPolygonaceae
General: Pteropyrum, from Gr. τέρυξ, pteryx, wing and υρος, pyros
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Collections
- NHMUK, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Iran, Armenia
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Pteropyrum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae. Plants of the World Online accepts seveh species, which range from Turkey to Afghanistan and Pakistan and to the Gulf States and Oman.
==Description== Species of Pteropyrum are shrubs. The few leaves may be arranged alternately or in bundles (fascicled). The ochrea is short. The flowers are small and bisexual, with five tepals, two outer and three inner, the three inner clasping the fruit when it forms. There are eight stamens. The ovary is three-angled with three styles. The fruit has three broad wings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pteropyrum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.