Biology:Montinia
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| Montinia caryophyllacea, Western Cape, South Africa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Solanales |
| Family: | Montiniaceae |
| Genus: | Montinia Thunb. |
| Species: | M. caryophyllacea
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| Binomial name | |
| Montinia caryophyllacea Thunb.
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Montinia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Montiniaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Montinia caryophyllacea Thunb. [3][4]
Its native range is Southern Africa. It is found in Angola, Botswana, the Cape Provinces (of South Africa) and Namibia.[3] It grows on dry, rocky, sandstone or granite slopes.[5]
Description
It is an upright, greyish, dioecious shrublet. It has male and female flowers on separate plants. It grows up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) tall. It has leathery, elliptical shaped and sometimes tufted leaves.[5] They are 15–70 mm (1–3 in) long, pale green, smooth and have a dull, waxy coating.[6] It blossoms between May and October and bears small waxy,[6] white flowers, either in loose clusters on the male plants or 1 or 2 flowers on the females plants. The flowers have 4 petals.[5] After flowering, the plant produces an ovoid shaped,[6] seed capsule or 'fruit', which is often dry and brown, and shuttle-shaped.[5] It is 15–20 mm (1–1 in) long.[6] The husk splits into 2 halves to release the seeds. Small flatten discs with membranous wings.[5]
Taxonomy
It has several Afrikaans common names: such as Bergklapper, Bergklapperbos, Bergklapperbossie, Donkiebos, Klokkiesbos, Peperbos, Peperbossie, Perdebos, Wildenaeltjiebos[2] and T'iena. It also has a couple of English common names, Wild clove-bush and Pepperbush.[6]
The genus name of Montinia is in honour of Lars Jonasson Montin (1723–1785), a Swedish botanist and doctor in Lund and Halland. He had maintained a large herbarium and was a student of Carl Linnaeus.[7] The Latin specific epithet of caryophyllacea refers to karyophyllon, the Greek word for Clove. It was first described and published in Physiogr. Sälsk. Handl. Vol.1 on pages 108–109 in 1776.[3]
References
- ↑ "SANBI Red List of South African Plants". http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=2740-2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Montinia Thunb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:28518-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Montinia caryophyllacea Thunb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:613483-1.
- ↑ "Montinia caryophyllacea | /RHS Gardening" (in en-gb). https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/21677/montinia-caryophyllacea/details.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Montinia caryophyllacea". https://www.fernkloof.org.za/index.php/all-plants/plant-families/item/montinia-caryophyllacea.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Kyffhäuser flora – Montinia caryophyllacea". http://www.kyffhauser.co.za/Plants1/Montinia_caryophyllacea/Index.htm.
- ↑ 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.
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