Streptanthus

Streptanthus
Streptanthus cordatus, southern Nevada
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Streptanthus
Nutt. (1825)
Species[1]

58, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Agianthus Greene (1906)
  • Cartiera Greene (1906)
  • Caulanthus S.Watson (1871)
  • Disaccanthus Greene (1906)
  • Euklisia Rydb. ex Small (1903)
  • Guillenia Greene (1906)
  • Icianthus Greene (1906)
  • Mesoreanthus Greene (1904)
  • Microsemia Greene (1904)
  • Microsisymbrium O.E.Schulz (1924), nom. superfl.
  • Mitophyllum Greene (1904)
  • Pleiocardia Greene (1904)
  • Sibaropsis S.Boyd & T.S.Ross (1997)
  • Stanfordia S.Watson (1880)
  • Streptanthella Rydb. (1917)

Streptanthus is a genus of plants within the family Brassicaceae.[2] There are 58 known species within the genus Streptanthus, distributed through the western and south-central United States and northern Mexico.[1] The common names for this genus are twistflower[3] and jewelflower. Twenty-four of the species and eleven lesser taxa occur in California, thirty-two of which are California endemics; seventeen of these California taxa are classified as rare plants.

  1. ^ a b c Streptanthus Nutt. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  2. ^ Kruckeberg & Morrison 1983 Madroño 30:230–244
  3. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Streptanthus​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 4 December 2015.