''Calligonum'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

s in the family

Polygonaceae The Polygonaceae are a Family (biology), family of flowering plants known Common name, informally as the knotweed family or smartweed—buckwheat family in the United States. The Botanical name, name is Basionym, based on the genus ''Polygonum'', ...

with about 80

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across the

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region,

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and

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Description

Plants of the genus ''Calligonum'' are shrubs, diffusely but irregularly branched, with flexuous woody branches. Leaves are simple, opposite, nearly sessile, linear or scale-like, sometimes absent or very small, linear or filiform, distinct or united with short membranous ochreae. Flowers are bisexual, solitary or in loose axillary inflorescences. Flowers have persistent, 5-parted

perianth The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone in monocots) is the non-reproductive part of the flower. It is a structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals) or tepal ...

s not accrescent in fruit, and 10-18

stamen The stamen (: stamina or stamens) is a part consisting of the male reproductive organs of a flower. Collectively, the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filament ...

s with filaments connate at the base. The

ovary The ovary () is a gonad in the female reproductive system that produces ova; when released, an ovum travels through the fallopian tube/ oviduct into the uterus. There is an ovary on the left and the right side of the body. The ovaries are end ...

is tetragonous.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Calligonum'' was first published by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

in 1753. It is placed in the subfamily Polygonoideae, tribe Calligoneae, along with its sister genus, '' Pteropyrum''.

Species

*'' Calligonum acanthopterum'' I.G.Borshch. *'' Calligonum alatosetosum'' Maassoumi & Kazempour *'' Calligonum aphyllum'' (Pall.) Gürke *'' Calligonum arborescens'' Litv. *'' Calligonum azel'' Maire *'' Calligonum babakianum'' Godw. *'' Calligonum bakuense'' Litv. *'' Calligonum bucocladum'' Bunge *'' Calligonum bykovii'' Godw. *'' Calligonum calvescens'' Maire *'' Calligonum caput-medusae'' Schrenk *'' Calligonum crinitum'' Boiss. *'' Calligonum crispum'' Bunge *'' Calligonum cristatum'' Bunge *'' Calligonum ebinuricum'' N.A.Ivanova ex Soskov *'' Calligonum eriopodum'' Bunge *'' Calligonum junceum'' (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Litv. *'' Calligonum klementzii'' Losinsk. *'' Calligonum laristanicum'' Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika *'' Calligonum leucocladum'' (Schrenk) Bunge *'' Calligonum litwinowii'' Drobow *'' Calligonum macrocarpum'' I.G.Borshch. *'' Calligonum matteianum'' Drobow *'' Calligonum mejidum'' Al-Khayat *'' Calligonum microcarpum'' I.G.Borshch. *'' Calligonum mongolicum'' Turcz. *'' Calligonum murex'' Bunge *'' Calligonum polygonoides'' L. *'' Calligonum rubicundum'' Bunge *'' Calligonum santoanum'' Korovin *'' Calligonum schizopterum'' Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika *'' Calligonum setosum'' (Litv.) Litv. *'' Calligonum spinosetosum'' Maassoumi & Batooli *'' Calligonum taklimakanense'' B.R.Pan & K.M.Shen *'' Calligonum tetrapterum'' Jaub. & Spach *'' Calligonum trifarium'' Z.M.Mao *'' Calligonum triste'' Litv. *'' Calligonum turbineum'' Pavlov

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2988961 Polygonaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus