Artanema
Encyclopedia
The genus
Artanema is a small group of flowering plant
species in the figwort family, Plantaginaceae
, but also classified in Linderniaceae
by some authors.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Artanema is a small group of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
species in the figwort family, Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago L..In older classifications it used to be the only family of the order Plantaginales, but numerous phylogenetic studies, summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, have...
, but also classified in Linderniaceae
Linderniaceae
The Linderniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales, which consists of about 13 genera and 195 species from worldwide, mainly in neotropics....
by some authors.
Selected species
- Artanema fimbriatum (W.J. Hook. ex R. Graham) D. Don
- Artanema longifoliumArtanema longifoliumArtanema longifolium is an edible flowering plant species found in tropical Africa, India and South-East Asia. The leaves are eaten as a leafy vegetable. - External links :*...
(L.) Vatke - Artanema sesamoides (Vahl) Benth.