Cistanthe ambigua: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Montiaceae
- Genus
- Cistanthe
- Species
- Cistanthe ambigua
- Scientific Name
- Cistanthe ambigua
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cistanthe ambigua
Thingia is a monospecific genus of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae comprised only by the species Thingia ambigua, known as desert pussypaws. It is native to northwestern Mexico, California, and Arizona, and is found commonly on sandy or silty soil. The sole species of the genus has been housed under several genera before it was split into Thingia: Claytonia in 1882, Calandrinia in 1893, and Cistanthe in 1990. DNA evidence demonstrated that the relationship of Thingia ambigua, then Cistanthe ambigua, to the next closest relative in Cistanthe, C. tweedyi, was actually disjointed. It was found that the two species were most closely related to completely separate South American taxa.
...Cistanthe ambigua in languages:
- English
- desert cistanthe
- English
- desert pussypaws
- English
- desert rockpurslane
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Cistanthe amarantoides
- Cistanthe ambigua
- Cistanthe arancioana
- Cistanthe arenaria
- Cistanthe cabrerae
- Cistanthe cachinalensis
- Cistanthe calycina
- Cistanthe celedoniana
- Cistanthe celosioides
- Cistanthe cephalophora
- Cistanthe chrysantha
- Cistanthe coquimbensis
- Cistanthe cymosa
- Cistanthe densiflora
- Cistanthe fenzlii
- Cistanthe frigida
- Cistanthe grandiflora
- Cistanthe guadalupensis
- Cistanthe humilis
- Cistanthe lamprosperma
- Cistanthe laxiflora
- Cistanthe lingulata
- Cistanthe longiscapa
- Cistanthe maritima
- Cistanthe minuscula
- Cistanthe mucronulata
- Cistanthe paniculata
- Cistanthe philhershkovitziana
- Cistanthe picta
- Cistanthe salsoloides
- Cistanthe stricta
- Cistanthe thyrsoidea
- Cistanthe tovarii
- Cistanthe vicina
- Cistanthe weberbaueri































































































































































