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.

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)

Species and subspecies

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58 species are accepted.[1] The following are some of the species (or subspecies) of the genus Streptanthus (county locations are not intended to be exhaustive):

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Streptanthus Nutt. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  2. ^ Kruckeberg & Morrison 1983 Madroño 30:230–244
  3. ^ NRCS. "Streptanthus". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  4. ^ David Rogers, The Double Cone Register, Vol IX, no. 1, Spring, 2006
  5. ^ Andy Kratter, Summary of Rare Plant Search along the Western California University Access Road Alignment, Los Gatos, County of Santa Clara, California, prepared for City of Los Gatos and State of California Environmental Clearinghouse, Earth Metrics Inc. Report 7965.W0, May, 1989
  6. ^ a b Nick Jensen "Two New Species of Streptanthus (Brassicaceae) in Southern California, and Notes on their Conservation," Madroño, 67(1), 19-34, (23 April 2020) https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-67.1.19
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