# Agdestis

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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| image = Agdestis clematidea.jpg
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| display_parents = 2
| grandparent_authority = <small>[Nowicke](/source/Joan_W._Nowicke)</small>
| genus = Agdestis
| parent_authority = <small>Moc. & Sessé ex DC.</small>
| species = clematidea
| authority = [Moc.](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Mariano_Moci%C3%B1o) & [Sessé](/source/Mart%C3%ADn_Sess%C3%A9_y_Lacasta) ex [DC.](/source/Alphonse_Pyramus_de_Candolle)
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'''''Agdestis''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s containing a single species '''''Agdestis clematidea,'''''  a [vine](/source/vine) native to Mexico & Central America, and [introduced](/source/Introduced_species) to [Cuba](/source/Cuba), [Puerto Rico](/source/Puerto_Rico), [Florida](/source/Florida), and [Texas](/source/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](/source/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](/source/molecular_phylogenetics) have found it to be possibly the [sister taxon](/source/sister_taxon) of ''[Sarcobatus](/source/Sarcobatus)'', also of uncertain classification and often placed in its own family, [Sarcobataceae](/source/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>

==References==
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==External links==
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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

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