Biology:Sauvallia
Sauvallia is a monotypic genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Commelinaceae, first described as a genus in 1871. The genus consists of a single species, Sauvallia blainii, which was endemic to Cuba.
The species is believed to be extinct.[1][2][3]
The genus name of Sauvallia is in honour of Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle (1807–1879), Cuban botanist and expert in molluscs.[4] It is not known what the Latin specific epithet of blainii refers to.
It was first described and published in Commelin. Ind.: 61 in 1870. Plants of the World Online note that Sauvallea C.Wright, is a synonym of Sauvallia C.Wright ex Hassk.[5]
It was placed within subtribe Thyrsanthemineae, due to its solitary spathe inclosing a single flower. It also has six, equal, filaments bearded (as part of the stamen) and subequal petals. Specimens exist at the Missouri Dunn-Palmer Herbarium.[6]
References
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Brian Groombridge (Editor) Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources (1992) , p. PA223, at Google Books
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Sauvallea C.Wright | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:7333-1.
- ↑ Hertweck, Kate L.; Chris Pire, J. (2014). "Systematics and Evolution of Inflorescence Structure in the Tradescantia Alliance (Commelinaceae) 1,2,3 and". Systematic Botany 39 (1): 105–116. doi:10.1600/036364414X677991.
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