Biology:Moriera

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Moriera
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Moriera
Boiss
Species:
M. spinosa
Binomial name
Moriera spinosa
Boiss.
Synonyms
  • Moriera gracilis Aethionema spinosum
  • (Boiss.) Prantl Boiss. & Buhse
  • Czerniak. Moriera stenoptera
  • Moriera cabulica Bornm.
  • Lepidium intricatum Boiss.

Moriera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Moriera spinosa Boiss. [2]

Its native range is Central Asia and it is found in the countries of Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan.[2]

The genus name of Moriera is in honour of James Justinian Morier (c. 1780 – 1849), a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about the Qajar dynasty in Iran, most famously for the Hajji Baba series.[3] The Latin specific epithet of spinosa is derived from spina meaning spiny.[4] The genus was first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., série 2 Vol.16 on page 380 in 1841,[1] and then the species, Moriera spinosa was first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.2, vol.17 on page 182 in 1842.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Moriera Boiss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12814-1. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Moriera spinosa Boiss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:287171-1. 
  3. 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. 
  4. Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199102051. 

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