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Grubbia

Grubbia
Grubbia tomentosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Cornales
Family:	Grubbiaceae Endl. ex Meisn. (1841)
Genus:	Grubbia P.J.Bergius (1767)
Type species
Grubbia rosmarinifolia P.J.Bergius
Species
Grubbia rosmarinifolia P.J.Bergius Grubbia rourkei Carlquist Grubbia tomentosa (Thunb.) Harms
Synonyms[1]
Lithodia Blume (1847 publ. 1849) Ophira Burm. ex L. (1771) Strobilocarpus Klotzsch (1839)

Grubbia is a genusofflowering plants.^[2] It is the sole genus in the family Grubbiaceae.^[3] The genus has three species, all endemic to the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa.^[4] They are shrubs that grow to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall, with tiny flowers and slender, leathery leaves.^[5] The fruit is a syncarp.

Grubbia was namedbyPeter Jonas Bergius in 1767 in a Swedish journal entitled Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar.^[6] The generic name honors the Swedish botanist Michael Grubb.^[7]

Grubbia was revised by Sherwin Carlquist in 1977.^[8] Grubbia gracilis, Grubbia hirsuta, and Grubbia pinifolia had all been recognized, at least by some authors, at species rank, but Carlquist treated them as subspeciesorvarietiesofGrubbia rosmarinifolia. Some authors had recognized a second genus, Strobilocarpus, in the family Grubbiaceae, but Carlquist assigned its two species, Strobilocarpus rourkei and Strobilocarpus tomentosatoGrubbia.

Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that GrubbiaissistertoCurtisia, another genus from South Africa.^[9] It has been suggested that Grubbia and Curtisia might be combined into a single family.^[10] This was not followed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group in the APG III system of 2009.

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• Grubbia At: Plant Names At: IPNI
• CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: D-L At: Botany & Plant Science At: Life Science At: CRC Press
• Grubbia At: Index Nominum Genericorum At: References At: NMNH Department of Botany At: Research and Collections At: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• Grubbia (exact) At: Names At: Tropicos At: Science and Conservation At: Missouri Botanical Garden
• Grubbia At: List of Genera At: Grubbiaceae At: List of Families At: Families and Genera in GRIN Archived 2013-02-27 at the Wayback Machine At: Queries At: GRIN taxonomy for plants
• Grubbia At: Grubbiaceae At: Cornales At: Asteridae At: core eudicots (Gunneridae) At: Eudicotyledoneae In: ··· Embryophyta At: Streptophytina At: Streptophyta At: Viridiplantae At: Eukaryota At: Taxonomy At: UniProt