Cynomorium
Genus of plant of the family Cynomoriaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cynomorium is a genus of parasitic perennial flowering plants in the family Cynomoriaceae.[2] The genus consists of only one species, Cynomorium coccineum (although one of its subspecies is sometimes treated as a separate species[3]). Its placement in the Saxifragales was resolved in 2016 with the help of nuclear, plastid, and mitochondrial sequences obtained from next-generation sequencing. Common names include the misleading Maltese fungus or Maltese mushroom; also desert thumb, red thumb, tarthuth (Bedouin) and suoyang (Chinese). A rare or local species, it grows in dry, rocky or sandy soils, often in salt marshes or other saline habitats close to the coast. It has had a wide variety of uses in European, Arabian and Chinese herbal medicine.[4][5][6]
Cynomorium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Saxifragales |
Family: | Cynomoriaceae Endl. ex Lindl.[1] |
Genus: | Cynomorium L. |
Species: | C. coccineum |
Binomial name | |
Cynomorium coccineum | |