Limeum
genus of plants
Limeum is a genus of flowering plants. It includes 25 species.
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. Limeum comprises subshrub and herbaceous species native to tropical, eastern and southern Africa, and South Asia. Previously, the genus Macarthuria from Australia was also placed here, but it now is found to belong to Macarthuriaceae.
Species list
Limeum contains the following species: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” enters the record as genus of plants. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Limeum, genus and plants can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Limeum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Limeum, genus and plants provides the most credible route into that argument.
Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5840652. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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