Argythamnia [SEP] parent taxon
Argythamnia
Argythamnia is a genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1756. They are known commonly as silverbushes.
- Species
As with many other genera, there have been many changes in classification the past several years. The following list includes species accepted as members of "Argythamnia" as of September 2014. The species are native to Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, Colombia, and Texas.
- formerly included
Moved to other genera "(Caperonia Chiropetalum Croton Ditaxis
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of