Agdestis

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{speciesbox | image = Agdestis clematidea.jpg | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | grandparent_authority = <small>Nowicke</small> | genus = Agdestis | parent_authority = <small>Moc. & Sessé ex DC.</small> | species = clematidea | authority = Moc. & Sessé ex DC. }}

'''''Agdestis''''' is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species '''''Agdestis clematidea,''''' a vine native to Mexico & Central America, and introduced to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas (though potentially native to the latter).<ref name=FNA1>{{citation |chapter-url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=220000316 |chapter=''Agdestis clematidea'' Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 543. 1817 |author1=Mark A. Nienaber |author2=John W. Thieret |title=Flora of North America online |volume=4 |year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rojas-Sandoval |first=Julissa |last2=Acevedo-Rodríguez |first2=Pedro |date=2014-11-25 |title=Agdestis clematidea (rockroot) |url=https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.119791 |journal=CABI Compendium |volume=CABI Compendium |article-number=119791 |doi=10.1079/cabicompendium.119791|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Agdestis clematidea (Rockroot) - FSUS |url=https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/main.php?pg=show-taxon.php&plantname=agdestis+clematidea |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=fsus.ncbg.unc.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Agdestis clematidea Moc. & Sessé ex DC. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:323287-2 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> Its common name '''rockroot''' refers to the large boulder-like root.<ref name=FNA1/>

==Taxonomy== ''Agdestis'' is usually placed in the Phytolaccaceae family.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40034239 |title=Tropicos.org |access-date =14 February 2016}}</ref> Its classification is uncertain, however, as several studies of molecular phylogenetics have found it to be possibly the sister taxon of ''Sarcobatus'', also of uncertain classification and often placed in its own family, Sarcobataceae.<ref>{{citation |author1=Yang, Y. |author2=Moore, M.J. |author3=Brockington, S.F. |author4=Soltis, D.E. |author5=Wong, G.K.-S. |author6=Carpenter, E.J. |author7=Zhang, Y. |author8=Chen, L. |author9=Yan, Z. |author10=Xie, Y. |author11=Sage, R.F. |author12=Covshoff, S. |author13=Hibberd, J.M. |author14=Nelson, M.N. |author15=Smith, S.A. |year=2015 |title=Dissecting molecular evolution in the highly diverse plant clade Caryophyllales using transcriptome sequencing |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |doi=10.1093/molbev/msv081 |doi-access=free |volume=32 |issue=8 |pages=2001–2014 |pmid=25837578 |pmc=4833068}}</ref>

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Category:Phytolaccaceae Category:Monotypic Caryophyllales genera Category:Taxa named by José Mariano Mociño Category:Taxa named by Martín Sessé y Lacasta Category:Taxa named by Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle