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Rumicastrum

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Rumicastrum is a genus of plants in the family Montiaceae. It includes 66 species native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.[1] These species were formerly classed in genus Calandrinia, which was discovered to be paraphyletic.[3]

Rumicastrum
Rumicastrum balonense
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Montiaceae
Genus: Rumicastrum
Ulbr. (1934)
Type species
Rumicastrum chamaecladum
(Diels) Ulbr.[2]
Species[1]

66; see text

Synonyms[1]

Parakeelya Hershk. (1998 publ. 1999)

Species

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66 species are accepted:[1]

Uses

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Rumicastrum balonense is recorded in the 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia as being called "periculia" by Indigenous Australians and that the plant was eaten by Europeans with bread while Indigenous Australians used it as a food when mixed with baked bark. "The seed is used for making a kind of bread, after the manner of that of Portulaca oleracea. (Mueller, Fragm., x., 71.)."[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Rumicastrum Ulbr. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  2. ^ Rumicastrum Ulbr. Australian Plant Names Index. Accessed 17 November 2023.
  3. ^ Hershkovitz, M.A. (2020). "Rumicastrum Ulbrich (Montiaceae): a beautiful name for the Australian calandrinias". Phytologia. 102: 116–123.
  4. ^ J. H. Maiden (1889). The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania. Turner and Henderson, Sydney.
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