Ricotia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, found in the Aegean islands, Crete, the Levant, the Sinai peninsula, Turkey, and the Transcaucasus. They appear to have arisen in Anatolia, to which five species are endemic.[3]
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| Ricotia Lunaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Tribe: | Biscutelleae |
| Genus: | Ricotia L.[1] |
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Species
editCurrently accepted species include:[2]
- Ricotia aucheri (Boiss.) B.L.Burtt
- Ricotia carnosula Boiss. & Heldr.
- Ricotia cretica Boiss. & Heldr.
- Ricotia davisiana B.L.Burtt
- Ricotia isatoides (Barbey) B.L.Burtt
- Ricotia lunaria (L.) DC.
- Ricotia sinuata Boiss. & Heldr.
- Ricotia tenuifolia Sm.
- Ricotia varians B.L.Burtt
References
edit- ^ Sp. Pl. ed. 2: 912 (1763)
- ^ a b "Ricotia L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ^ Özüdoğru, Barış; Akaydın, Galip; Erik, Sadık; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.; Mummenhoff, Klaus (2015). "Phylogeny, diversification and biogeographic implications of the eastern Mediterranean endemic genus Ricotia (Brassicaceae)". Taxon. 64 (4): 727–740. doi:10.12705/644.5.