Family:
Primulaceae Batsch ex Borkh.

Androsace L.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Temp. Northern Hemisphere to N. Mexico, S. South America.

[FIQ]

Ghazanfar, S. A. & Edmondson, J. R (Eds). (2014) Flora of Iraq, Volume 5 Part 2: Lythraceae to Campanulaceae.

Morphology General Habit
Annual or perennial herbs, often shortly stoloniferous and densely caespitose
Morphology Leaves
Leaves usually basal, forming a rosette
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Pedicel
Pedicels solitary or umbellate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
Bracts setaceous or foliose, rarely absent
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx campanulate or subglobose, 5-lobed
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens and style shorter than corolla tube
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule globose, dehiscing by 5 valves.
Distribution
Distributed from Eurasia south to N Africa, Arabia, Himalaya and to New Guinea; North America excluding SE USA into Mexico; S Argentina.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hainan, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Louisiana, Magadan, Manchuria, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Nevada, New Guinea, New Mexico, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nunavut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon

Extinct in:

Newfoundland

Introduced into:

New York

Androsace L. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Sp. Pl.: 142 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Chase, M.W. (2017). Plants of the World. An illustrated encyclopedia of vascular plants: 1-792. Kew Publishing, The university of Chicago Press.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (1996). Flora of China 15: 1-387. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

Literature

Flora of Iraq

  • Linnaeus Gen. Pl. ed. 5 : 69 (1754);
  • Linnaeus Sp. Pl. ed. 1 : 141 (1753) ;
  • R. Kunth in Pflanzenr. 4, 237: 172 (1905)

  • Flora of Iraq

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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0