Biology:Goetzea

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Goetzea
Goetzea elegans fruit.jpg
Goetzea elegans
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Subfamily: Goetzeoideae
Genus: Goetzea
Wydler

Goetzea is a genus of plant in the family Solanaceae. It was originally placed by H. Wydler in the family Ebenaceae and named for his teacher the Rev. Johann August Ephraim Goetze.[1] It was for about half a century included in the now defunct family Goetzeaceae Miers ex Airy Shaw [2]

Note

This is not to be confused with Goetzea, Rchb., a genus in the Fabaceaea, the bean family

Species

  • Goetzea amoena Griseb.
  • Goetzea eggersii Urban ex Radlk.
  • Goetzea ekmanii O.E.Schulz ex O.C.Schmidt
  • Goetzea elegans Wydler

Notes

References

  1. Linnaea 5: 423, t. 8. 1830
  2. Brummitt, R.K. (1964). "A New Genus of the Tribe Sophoreae (Leguminosae) from Western Africa and Borneo". Kew Bull 18 (3): 375–386. doi:10.2307/4108328. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q138501 entry