Biology:Suksdorfia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae

Suksdorfia
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Suksdorfia ranunculifolia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Saxifragaceae
Genus: Suksdorfia
Gray
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Hemieva Raf.

Suksdorfia is a genus in the family Saxifragaceae. There are only two accepted species: Suksdorfia ranunculifolia and Suksdorfia violacea.[2] Asa Gray named the genus Suksdorfia after Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf, a mostly self-taught German botanist who came to the United States at age eight and found the species S. violacea in the northwestern United States. S. violacea is the type species for this genus.[3]

Since the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature of 1906, the genus name Suksdorfia Gray, published in 1879, has been conserved against the earlier name Hemieva Raf., which had been published in 1837 with the type species Hemieva ranunculifolia (Hook.) Raf. (based on Saxifraga ranunculifolia Hook., published in 1832).[4][5]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q9080458 entry