Biology:Miersiella umbellata

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Miersiella umbellata
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Burmanniaceae
Genus: Miersiella
Urb.
Species:
M. umbellata
Binomial name
Miersiella umbellata
(Miers) Urb.
Synonyms[1]
  • Dictyostega umbellata Miers
  • Dictyostega costata Miers
  • Miersiella aristata Sandwith
  • Miersiella costata (Miers) Sandwith
  • Miersiella kuhlmannii Brade

Miersiella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1903. It contains only one known species, Miersiella umbellata Urb. It is native to South America (in the countries of Brazil , French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru).[1][2][3]

The genus name of Miersiella is in honour of John Miers (1789–1879), a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina.[4] The Latin specific epithet of umbellata is derived from umbella meaning umbelled, referring to the flower.[5] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Symb. Antill. Vol.3 on page 439 in 1903.[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en-GB). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=254490. 
  2. Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  3. Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021. 
  5. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X. 
  6. "Miersiella umbellata (Miers) Urb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:160723-2. 

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