Andrachne is a genus of flowering plants in the family Phyllanthaceae described by Linnaeus in 1753.Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1014Tropicos, Andrachne L. It is one of eight genera in the tribe Poranthereae.Maria S. Vorontsova and Petra Hoffmann. 2008. "A phylogenetic classification of tribe Poranthereae (Phyllanthaceae)." Kew Bulletin 63(1):41-59.
They are monoecious herbs or subshrubs, native to semideserts and desert margins of the Americas, southern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Linnaeus took the name from Theophrastus, but it is not clear to which plant Theophrastus applied the name.Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume I, page 135. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington, DC;, USA. London, UK. (vol. I) (see External links below).Andrachne In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below). Actually, the etymology of the genus name corresponds to the Ancient Greek word (), meaning either "common purslane" (Portulaca oleracea) or "wild strawberry" (Fragaria vesca).
Systematics Species list The Andrachne genus includes the following species.
Formerly included The following species were formerly included in Andrachne before being moved to the other genera Bischofia, Breynia, Bridelia, Cleistanthus, Leptopus, Meineckia, Notoleptopus, Phyllanthus, Phyllanthopsis, Pseudophyllanthus, and Sauropus.
References
External links Andrachne In: Species Plantarum, volume 2 At: Carl von Linné At: Authors At: Botanicus CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: A-C At: Botany & Plant Science At: Life Science At: CRC Press Andrachne At:ING At: References At: NMNH Department of Botany At: Research and Collections At: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Eraclissa and Telephioides At: IPNI