Biology:Heldreichia

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Heldreichia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Heldreichia
Boiss.
Species:
H. bupleurifolia
Binomial name
Heldreichia bupleurifolia
Boiss.

Heldreichia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.[1] The only species is Heldreichia bupleurifolia.[2]

Its native range is the eastern Mediterranean. It is found in the countries of Lebanon-Syria, Palestine and Turkey.[2]

The genus name of Heldreichia is in honour of Theodor von Heldreich (1822–1902), a German botanist born in Dresden.[3] The Latin specific epithet of bupleurifolia refers to means ‘with leaves like those of the genus Bupleurum’, a large genus in the Apiaceae (carrot family), commonly called Hare’s Ear. The genus name Bupleurum is also an ancient Greek word for ‘umbelliferous plant’.[4]

It was first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.2, Vol.16 on page 381 in 1841.[2]

It has 1 known variety and 5 known subspecies;[2]

  • Heldreichia bupleurifolia subsp. malatyana Heldreichia bupleurifolia var. atalayi
  • (Kit Tan) Parolly, Nordt & Mumm. (Boiss.) Parolly, Nordt & Mumm.
  • Özüdogru & Yildirim Heldreichia bupleurifolia subsp. polymorpha
  • Heldreichia bupleurifolia subsp. bupleurifolia Parolly, Nordt, Eren & Mumm.
  • Heldreichia bupleurifolia subsp. bourgaei
  • (Boiss.) Parolly, Nordt & Mumm. Heldreichia bupleurifolia subsp. rotundifolia


References

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