Biology:Volkensinia

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Volkensinia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Volkensinia
Schinz, 1912
Species:
V. prostrata
Binomial name
Volkensinia prostrata
(Volkens ex Gilg) Schinz
Synonyms[1]
  • Marcellia prostrata Dasysphaera prostrata
  • (Volkens ex Gilg) Cavaco Volkens ex Gilg
  • (Volkens ex Gilg) C.B.Clarke Volkensinia grandiflora
  • Marcellia leptacantha Suess.
  • Kentrosphaera prostrata Peter

Volkensinia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It only contains one known species; Volkensinia prostrata.[2] It is in the subfamily Amaranthoideae.

Its native range is north eastern and eastern Tropical Africa, it is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Tanzania.[1][2]

The genus name of Volkensinia is in honour of Georg Volkens (1855–1917), a German botanist born in Berlin.[3] The Latin specific epithet of prostrata means on the ground as derived from prostrate.[4] Both the genus and the sole species were first described and published in Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich Vol.57 on page 535 in 1912.[1][2]

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