Aphanes

Aphanes (parsley-piert) is a genus of around 20 species^[1] in the rose family (Rosaceae), native to Europe, Asia and Australia. A 2003 study indicated that Aphanes may belong to the genus Alchemilla, commonly called lady's-mantle.^[2][3] They are slender, annual prostrate herbs, much-branched with deeply lobed leaves, pilose (covered with soft hair) and on short petioles. The tiny green to yellow flowers without petals grow in clusters in the denticulate leaflike stipules.

Aphanes
Aphanes arvensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Subfamily:	Rosoideae
Tribe:	Potentilleae
Subtribe:	Fragariinae
Genus:	Aphanes L.

Species include:

• Aphanes andicola Rothm.
• Aphanes arvensis L. – field parsley-piert, western lady's-mantle, parsley breakstone
• Aphanes australiana – Australian piert
• Aphanes cotopaxiensis Romoleroux & Frost-Olsen
• Aphanes cuneifolia (Nutt.) Rydb.
• Aphanes looseri Rothm.
• Aphanes microcarpa (Boiss. & Reut.) Rothm. (syn. A. australis, A. inexpectata) – slender parsley-piert
• Aphanes occidentalis (Nutt.) Rydb. – dew cup, lady's mantle

References

1. D. J. Mabberley (2008). Mabberley's Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, Their Classifications, and Uses. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780521820714.
2. Torsten Eriksson; Malin S. Hibbs; Anne D. Yoder; Charles F. Delwiche; Michael J. Donoghue (2003). "The phylogeny of Rosoideae (Rosaceae) based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and the trnL/F region of chloroplast DNA" (PDF). International Journal of Plant Sciences. 164 (2): 197–211. doi:10.1086/346163. S2CID 22378156.
3. Ji Young Yang; Jae-Hong Pak (2006). "Phylogeny of Korean Rubus (Rosaceae) based on its (nrDNA) and trnL/F intergenic region (cpDNA)". Journal of Plant Biology. 49 (1): 44–54. doi:10.1007/BF03030787. S2CID 25407118.

External links

• "Aphanes L." Atlas of Living Australia.