Frankeniaceae
Frankeniaceae is a monogeneric family (genus Frankenia) with about 70 accepted species of herbaceous perennials and subshrubs, most of them halophytic. and typical of warm regions.
Description
The genus is characterized by opposite, small, ericoid, simple, and entire leaves. Hermaphroditic, actinomorphic flowers; Calyx with 4-7 teeth, partly welded; corolla with 4-7 petals, provided with a ligular appendage on the nail; anthers with a variable number of stamens, often 6 in 2 whorls, 3 + 3 or 2 + 4; superior unilocular ovary. Cymose inflorescences or isolated flowers. Fruit in a loculicidal capsule.
Taxonomy
The family was created, without description or iconography, as Frankeniées (Frankenieae) by Nicaise Augustin Desvaux and published in Dictionnaire raisonné de botanique, p. 188[1], 1817.
Species
In March 2018 the following species are accepted:
- Frankenia adpressa Summerh.
- Frankenia ambita Ostenf.
- Frankenia boissieri Reut. ex Boiss.
- Frankenia brachyphylla (Benth.) Summerh.
- Frankenia bracteata Turcz.
- Frankenia Bucharica Basil.
- Frankenia captain Webb & Berthel.
- Frankenia chevalieri Maire
- Frankenia chilensis C.Presl ex Schult. & Schult.f.
- Frankenia chubutensis Speg.
- Frankenia cinerea A.DC.
- Frankenia confer Diels
- Frankenia confused Summerh.
- Frankenia connata Sprague
- Frankenia cordata J.M.Black
- Frankenia corymbosa Desf.
- Frankenia crispa J.M.Black
- Frankenia coupularis Summerh.
- Frankenia decurrens Summerh.
- Frankenia dense Summerh.
- Frankenia desertorum Summerh.
- Frankenia drummondii Benth.
- Frankenia eremophila Summerh.
- Frankenia ericifolia C.Sm. ex DC.
- Frankenia fecunda Summerh.
- Frankenia fischeri Hicken
- Frankenia flabella Sprague
- Wife Frankenia J.M.Black
- Frankenia fruticosa J.C.Manning & Helme
- Frankenia georgei Diels
- Frankenia glomerata Turcz.
- Frankenia gracilis Summerh.
- Frankenia gypsophila I.M.Johnst.
- Frankenia hamata Summerh.
- Frankenia hirsuta L.
- Frankenia hispidula Summerh.
- Frankenia interioris Ostenf.
- Frankenia irregularis Summerh.
- Frankenia jamesii Torr. ex A.Gray
- Frankenia johnstonii Runll
- Frankenia juniperoides (Hieron.) M.N.Correa
- Frankenia laevis L.
- Frankenia latior Sprague & Summerh.
- Frankenia laxiflora Summerh.
- Frankenia leonardorum Alain
- Frankenia magnifies Summerh.
- Frankenia margaritae Medrano
- Frankenia microphylla Cav.
- Frankenia muscosa J.M.Black
- Frankenia orthotricha (J.M.Black) J.M.Black
- Frankenia pallida Boiss.
- Frankenia palmeri S.Watson
- Frankenia parvula Turcz.
- Frankenia patagonica Speg.
- Frankenia pauciflora DC.
- Frankenia Persica (Boiss.) Jaub. " Spach
- Frankenia planifolia Sprague & Summerh.
- Frankenia plicata Melville
- Frankenia pomonensis Pohnert
- Frankenia portulacifolia (Roxb.) Spreng.
- Frankenia pseudoflabella Summerh.
- Frankenia pulverizing L.
- Frankenia punctata Turcz.
- Frankenia repens (P.J.Bergius) Fourc.
- Frankenia salina (Molina) I.M.Johnst.
- Frankenia salsuginea Adigüzel & Aytaç
- Frankenia scabra Lindl.
- Frankenia serpyllifolia Lindl.
- Frankenia sessilis Summerh.
- Frankenia set W.Fitzg.
- Frankenia stuartii Summerh.
- Frankenia subteres Summerh.
- Frankenia tetrapetala Labill.
- Frankenia thymifolia Desf.
- Frankenia triandra J.Rémy
- Frankenia tuvinica Lomon.
- Frankenia uncinata Sprague & Summerh.
- Frankenia vidalii Phil.