Zaleya is a genus of flowering plants in the iceplant family Aizoaceae, found in Cape Verde, Africa, Madagascar, Réunion, Socotra, West Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Australia.[3][2]
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| Zaleya decandra | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Subfamily: | Sesuvioideae |
| Genus: | Zaleya Burm.f.[1] |
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Species
editCurrently accepted species include:[2]
- Zaleya camillei (Cordem.) H.E.K.Hartmann
- Zaleya decandra (L.) Burm.f.
- Zaleya galericulata (Melville) H.Eichler
- Zaleya govindia (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) N.C.Nair
- Zaleya pentandra (L.) C.Jeffrey
- Zaleya redimita (Melville) Bhandari
References
edit- ^ Fl. Indica: 110 (1768)
- ^ a b c "Zaleya Burm.f." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ Xu, Han (2019). "The complete chloroplast genome of newly alien medicinal and toxic species, Zaleya pentandra (L.) C.Jeffrey (Aizoaceae), in China". Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 4 (2): 3412–3413. doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1674709. PMC 7707379. PMID 33366017. S2CID 208592601.