Limeum

Limeum is a genus of flowering plants. It includes 25 species.

Limeum
Limeum africanum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Limeaceae Reveal[1]
Genus:	Limeum L.
Species
See text
Synonyms[2]
List Acanthocarpea Klotzsch Dicarpaea C.Presl Ditroche E.Mey. ex Moq. Gaudinia J.Gay Linscotia Adans. Semonvillea J.Gay

The genus Limeum was traditionally recognized as belonging to the family Molluginaceae, but is now treated as the sole genus in the monotypic family Limeaceae. The family is newly recognized through research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III system to deal with long-standing phylogenetic difficulties in placing various genera within the Caryophyllales.^[3][4] Limeum comprises subshrub and herbaceous species native to tropical, eastern and southern Africa, and South Asia.^[1] Previously, the genus Macarthuria from Australia was also placed here, but it now is found to belong to Macarthuriaceae.^[5]

Species list

Limeum contains the following species:^[6]

• Limeum aethiopicum Burm.f.
• Limeum africanum L.
• Limeum angustifolium Verdc.
• Limeum arabicum Friedrich
• Limeum arenicola G.Schellenb.
• Limeum argute-carinatum Wawra
• Limeum deserticola Dinter & G.Schellenb.
• Limeum diffusum (J.Gay) Schinz
• Limeum dinteri G.Schellenb.
• Limeum fenestratum (Fenzl) Heimerl
• Limeum fruticosum Verdc.
• Limeum humifusum Friedrich
• Limeum humile Forssk.
• Limeum katangense Hauman
• Limeum madagascariense Sukhor.
• Limeum myosotis H.Walter
• Limeum obovatum Vicary
• Limeum pauciflorum Moq.
• Limeum praetermissum C.Jeffrey
• Limeum pterocarpum (J.Gay) Heimerl
• Limeum rhombifolium G.Schellenb.
• Limeum subnudum Friedrich
• Limeum sulcatum (Klotzsch) Hutch.
• Limeum telephioides E.Mey. ex Fenzl
• Limeum viscosum (J.Gay) Fenzl