Biology:Inezia (plant)

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Inezia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Anthemideae
Genus: Inezia
E.Phillips
Type species
Inezia integrifolia
(Klatt) E.Phillips

Inezia is a genus of South Africa plants in the sunflower family.[1][2]

Etymology

The genus name honours Inez Clare Verdoorn (1896–1989), a South African taxonomist.[3]

Description

The species Inezia integrifolia was first described by Klatt as Lidbeckia integrifolia and occurs in Mpumalanga and Eswatini. It is described by Phillips as "a perennial herb with unbranched stems from a woody rootstock; leaves alternate, linear to lanceolate, punctate, pilose; heads solitary, terminal, peduncled."[4]

Species[5][6]
  • Inezia integrifolia (Klatt) E.Phillips - Mpumalanga, Eswatini[7]
  • Inezia speciosa Brusse - Limpopo[8]

References

  1. Edwin Percy Phillips. 1932. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1932: 297.
  2. Tropicos, Inezia E. P. Phillips
  3. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9. 
  4. The Genera of South African Flowering Plants - E. Percy Phillips (Pretoria, 1951)
  5. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  6. The Plant List search for Inezia
  7. Red List of South African Plants, Inezia integrifolia (Klatt) E.Phillips
  8. Red List of South African Plants, Inezia speciosa Brusse

Wikidata ☰ Q2003240 entry