Solms-laubachia is a high-elevation genus of perennial herbaceous plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is named for the German botanist Hermann zu Solms-Laubach.
Taxonomy
In 2008, Yue
et al. expanded
Solms-laubachia, using molecular phylogenetics, to incorporate all
Desideria species and one other species,
Phaeonychium jafrii. They also described four new species.
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Distribution and habitat
Solms-laubachia species grow naturally in the Himalayas, Karakoram, Pamir Mountains and Hengduan mountains or, regionally, in an arc from Kyrgyzstan in the northwest to southeastern Tibet. Their habitat is scree slopes and rock crevices from to elevation.[
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Species
34 species are accepted.[
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Solms-laubachia albiflora
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Solms-laubachia angustifolia
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Solms-laubachia baiogoinensis
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Solms-laubachia calcicola
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Solms-laubachia eurycarpa
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Solms-laubachia flabellata
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Solms-laubachia grandiflora
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Solms-laubachia haranensis
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Solms-laubachia himalayensis
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Solms-laubachia incana
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Solms-laubachia jafrii
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Solms-laubachia kashgarica
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Solms-laubachia lanata
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Solms-laubachia lanuginosa
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Solms-laubachia linearifolia
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Solms-laubachia linearis
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Solms-laubachia marinellii
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Solms-laubachia mieheorum
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Solms-laubachia minor
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Solms-laubachia mirabilis
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Solms-laubachia nepalensis
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Solms-laubachia parryoides
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Solms-laubachia platycarpa
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Solms-laubachia prolifera
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Solms-laubachia pulcherrima
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Solms-laubachia pumila
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Solms-laubachia retropilosa
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Solms-laubachia stewartii
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Solms-laubachia sunhangiana
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Solms-laubachia surculosa
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Solms-laubachia tianbaoshanensis
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Solms-laubachia villosa
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Solms-laubachia xerophyta
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Solms-laubachia zhongdianensis
