Zaleya
Zaleya decandra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Aizoaceae
Subfamily: Sesuvioideae
Genus: Zaleya
Burm.f.[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Rocama Forssk.
  • Zallia Roxb.

Zaleya is a genus of flowering plants in the iceplant family Aizoaceae, found in Cape Verde, Africa, Madagascar, Réunion, Socotra, West Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Australia.[3][2]

Species

Currently accepted species include:[2]

  • Zaleya camillei (Cordem.) H.E.K.Hartmann
  • Zaleya decandra (L.) Burm.f.
  • Zaleya galericulata (Melville) H.Eichler
  • Zaleya govindia (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) N.C.Nair
  • Zaleya pentandra (L.) C.Jeffrey
  • Zaleya redimita (Melville) Bhandari

References

  1. Fl. Indica: 110 (1768)
  2. 1 2 3 "Zaleya Burm.f." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  3. Xu, Han (2019). "The complete chloroplast genome of newly alien medicinal and toxic species, Zaleya pentandra (L.) C.Jeffrey (Aizoaceae), in China". Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 4 (2): 3412–3413. doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1674709. PMC 7707379. PMID 33366017. S2CID 208592601.
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