Colobanthus

Colobanthus
Colobanthus quitensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Caryophyllaceae
Genus:	Colobanthus Bartl.
Species
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Colobanthus is a large genus of small, cushion-like herbaceous plants, sometimes known as "pearlworts", a name they share with plants of the related genus Sagina.

Selected species

• Colobanthus affinis
• Colobanthus apetalus
• Colobanthus kerguelensis
• Colobanthus muscoides
• Colobanthus pulvinatus
• Colobanthus quitensis, the world's southernmost dicot, and one of only two flowering plants of Antarctica