Phlyctidocarpa

Phlyctidocarpa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.^[1] It contains a single species, Phlyctidocarpa flava. Its native range is Namibia.^[1]

Phlyctidocarpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Apiaceae
Genus:	Phlyctidocarpa Cannon & W.L.Theob.[1]
Species:	P. flava
Binomial name
Phlyctidocarpa flava Cannon & W.L.Theob.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus and sole species were first described in 1967.^[1] It has been placed in subfamily Apioideae (possibly in its own tribe Phlyctidocarpeae), but a 2021 molecular phylogenetic study found that it was sister to a clade composed of the subfamilies Saniculoideae and Apioideae so that including it in Apioideae rendered that subfamily paraphyletic. One possibility is to include it in an expanded Saniculoideae; another is to merge Saniculoideae into an expanded Apioideae.^[2]