Agdestis
| Agdestis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Phytolaccaceae |
| Subfamily: | Agdestidoideae Nowicke |
| Genus: | Agdestis Moc. & Sessé ex DC. |
| Species: | A. clematidea
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| Binomial name | |
| Agdestis clematidea | |
Agdestis is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species Agdestis clematidea, a vine native to Mexico & Central America, and introduced to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas (though potentially native to the latter).[1][2][3][4] Its common name rockroot refers to the large boulder-like root.[1]
Taxonomy
Agdestis is usually placed in the Phytolaccaceae family.[5] Its classification is uncertain, however, as several studies of molecular phylogenetics have found it to be possibly the sister taxon of Sarcobatus, also of uncertain classification and often placed in its own family, Sarcobataceae.[6]
References
- ^ a b Mark A. Nienaber; John W. Thieret (2004), "Agdestis clematidea Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 543. 1817", Flora of North America online, vol. 4
- ^ Rojas-Sandoval, Julissa; Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro (2014-11-25). "Agdestis clematidea (rockroot)". CABI Compendium. CABI Compendium 119791. doi:10.1079/cabicompendium.119791.
- ^ "Agdestis clematidea (Rockroot) - FSUS". fsus.ncbg.unc.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
- ^ "Agdestis clematidea Moc. & Sessé ex DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
- ^ Tropicos.org, retrieved 14 February 2016
- ^ Yang, Y.; Moore, M.J.; Brockington, S.F.; Soltis, D.E.; Wong, G.K.-S.; Carpenter, E.J.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, L.; Yan, Z.; Xie, Y.; Sage, R.F.; Covshoff, S.; Hibberd, J.M.; Nelson, M.N.; Smith, S.A. (2015), "Dissecting molecular evolution in the highly diverse plant clade Caryophyllales using transcriptome sequencing", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32 (8): 2001–2014, doi:10.1093/molbev/msv081, PMC 4833068, PMID 25837578
External links
Data related to Agdestis at Wikispecies