Gypsophiloides

Gypsophiloides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Gypsophiloides
Mahdavi & Assadi
Species:
G. alsinoides
Binomial name
Gypsophiloides alsinoides
(Bunge) Mahdavi & Assadi
Synonyms
  • Arenaria bungei Barkoudah
  • Dichoglottis alsinoides (Bunge) Walp.
  • Gypsophila alsinoides Bunge (1847) (basionym)
  • Silene alsinoides (Bunge) E.H.L.Krause
  • Stellaria blatteri Mattf.

Gypsophiloides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It includes a single species, Gypsophiloides alsinoides, an annual native to Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and western Pakistan.

The species was first described as Gypsophila alsinoides by Alexander von Bunge in 1847. In 2023 Mahdavi & Assadi placed it in the new monotypic genus Gypsophiloides.