Pomatosace [SEP] parent taxon
Pomatosace
Pomatosace filicula is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, endemic to the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau in China.
Description.
"Pomatosace filicula" is a biennial plant that grows from rosettes of basal leaves, each long and wide and divided into lobes along its length; the leaves may be reminiscent of a fern, providing the species' epithet, ' (diminutive of Latin ', "fern"). The flowers are borne in umbels of 3–12 flowers on a stalk tall. Each flower
It is thought to have evolved to inhabit the open ground in front of the burrows of plateau pikas ("Ochotona curzoniae") and other ground-dwelling mammals.
Taxonomy.
"Pomatosace filicula" is the only species in the genus "Pomatosace", as described by Karl Maximovich in 1881. More recent molecular phylogenetic data have shown, however, that "Pomatosace" is nested within "Androsace", meaning that some taxonomic change is required to maintain monophyletic genera – either sinking "Pomatosace" into "Androsace