Biology:Sandemania

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Sandemania
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Sandemania
Gleason
Species:
S. hoehnei
Binomial name
Sandemania hoehnei
(Cogn.) Wurdack
Synonyms[1]
  • Sandemania cogniauxii Comolia
  • Cogn. ex Hoehne Ule
  • (Ule) Wurdack Sandemania glandulosa
  • Leandra purpurascens Wurdack
  • Leandra cogniauxii Cogn.
  • Gleason Sandemania lilacina

Sandemania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. The only known species is Sandemania hoehnei.[2]

Its native range is southern Tropical America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil (northern and west-central), Peru and Venezuela.[2]

The genus name of Sandemania is in honour of Christopher Albert Walter Sandeman (1882–1951), an English botanist and traveler. He collected in South America.[3] The Latin specific epithet of hoehnei refers to Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959), a Brazilian botanist.[4] The genus was first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939, onpage 480 in 1939.[2] The species was then first published in Phytologia Vol.20 on page 370 in 1970.[1]

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