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Lennoaceae Solms
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Distribution Map
Photographs
Lennoa
- Lennoa madreporoides
- Photo. Habit
of plant emerging from sand. Mexico, Edo. de Oaxaca La Ventosa, in
stabilized dunes on Pacific coast. Photo by Kevin Nixon, 1978.
Archived at PlantSystematics.org.
- Photo.
Close-up of inflorescence. Mexico, Edo. de Oaxaca La
Ventosa, in stabilized dunes on Pacific coast. Photo by Kevin Nixon,
1978.
- Photo showing habit of
excavated flowering shoot and another Photo
of a closer view of the flowers. Guatemala, Peten District, Cerro
Cahui Biotope Preserve, 2 km from El Remate along the eastern edge
of Lake Peten Itza. Photos December 2007 by Katharine B.
Gregg.
- Photos.
Habit of the plant. Guerrero, México. Photo by Itzi Fragoso. Link
goes to Flickr.
Pholisma
(including Ammobroma)
- Pholisma arenarium
- Photo. Habitat. Sand
flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
- Photo.
Habit of plants. Grapevine Canyon, Kern County, California. Photo by
Naomi Fraga. Link goes to
Flickr.
- Photo. Inflorescence.
Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
- Photo.
Inflorescence. Eastern Kern County, California. Photo by Benjamin
Lowe. Link goes to Flickr.
- Photo.
Inflorescence. Jawbone Visitors Center, Mojave Desert, California.
Photo by Lara Hartley. Link
goes to Flickr.
- Photo.
Inflorescence. Mojave Desert, California. Photo by John Salter.
Link goes to Flickr.
- Photo. Close-up of
flower. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance
Baird.
- Photo. Inflorescence
in hand. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance
Baird.
- Photo. Excavated
plants showing various developmental stages. Sand flats of Morro
Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
- Photo. Haustorial
connection. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance
Baird.
- Photo. Connection to
host root (light). Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm.
Vance Baird.
- Photo. Habit of
plants. Baja, California. Photo by George Yatskievych.
- Photo.
Inflorescence. Josua Tree N. M., California. Photo by George
Yatskievych.
- Photos.
USA (California). Link goes
to Flora of the World.
- Pholisma culiacana
- Photo. Excavated
plants attached to host root. Photo by George Yatskievych.
- Photo. Plant in
full flower. Photographed 11 July 2009 by Orlando Linares.
- Pholisma sonorae
- Photo. Habitat.
Southern California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
- Photo. Top view of
inflorescence in sand. Southern California. Photo by Wm. Vance
Baird.
- Photo. Top view of
inflorescence in sand. Photo by George Yatskievych.
- Photo.
Top view of inflorescence in sand. Algondones Dunes, California.
Photo by Alan J. Hahn. Link
goes to Flickr.
- Photo. Excavated plant.
Southern California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
- Photo. Side view of
inflorescences emerging from the sand. Southern California. Photo by
Wm. Vance Baird.
- Photos.
USA (California). Link goes
to Flora of the World.
Phylogeny
The classification of Lennoaceae has
been controversial, mainly owing to different interpretations of how
families within the order should be delimited. The work by
Gottschling et al. (2014. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 72: 1-6)
showed the two genera Lennoa and
Pholisma were a component of
a monophyletic Ehretiaceae. It was for this reason that the
classification on Parasitic Plant
Connection was changed. More recently, Luebert et al. (2016,
Taxon 65:502-522) used more recent molecular phylogenetic data as well as
morphological features to propose a consensus classification where the
order consists of eleven monophyletic families. Here Lennoaceae is
recognized and is sister to Ehretiaceae. Because this classification
took into consideration nomenclatural stability, hopefully the taxonomic
volatility of this order has been settled.
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