Biology:Viola wikipedia
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Violaceae |
| Genus: | Viola |
| Species: | V. wikipedia
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| Viola wikipedia Watson & Flores, 2019
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Viola wikipedia is a species of flowering plant, in the genus Viola, and was named in 2019 after the online encyclopedia Wikipedia[1] by the husband-and-wife[2] team of botanists John Michael Watson (es) and Ana Rosa Flores (es).[1]
Watson wrote:[1]
one [resource] is particularly outstanding in that we consult it constantly for information on a wide variety of subjects related to our work – Wikipedia, as cited herein for example. The best token return we can think of is to name a plant accordingly, so it therefore gives us pleasure to record our gratitude via the replacement epithet of this species, as a noun in apposition.
The species is endemic to the Santiago region of Chile .[1] It is known only from a specimen collected in January 1855,[1][3] which was described by Rodolfo Amando Philippi in 1857 with the illegitimate homonym of Viola angustifolia.[1][3]
It is closely related to V. acanthophylla, V. bustillosia, and V. cheeseana, the latter being newly described in the same paper.[1] It is differentiated from these other species by having "Leaf margin shallowly long-serrate. Peduncle clearly shorter than leaves."[1]
However, according to International Plant Name Index, Viola wikipedia would be not a new species but a superfluous and illegitimate name of Viola angustifolia.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Watson, J.M. (2019). "Lest we forget. A new identity and status for a Viola of section Andinium W. Becker; named for an old and treasured friend and companion. Plus another...". International Rock Gardener (117): 47–. http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2019Sep261569525649IRG117.pdf.
- ↑ "Contributors". Rock Garden Quarterly. Winter 2012–2013. https://nargs.org/sites/default/files/free-rgq-downloads/roga_71-1.pdf. Retrieved 2019-10-01. "John Watson lives in Chile with his wife and working partner, Anita Flores (Ana R. Flores for formal publications).".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Philippi, R.A. (1857) Plantarum novarum chilensium. Centuria prima. Linnaea 28: 612.
- ↑ "Name entry at International Plant Names Index". https://www.ipni.org/n/77202100-1.
Wikidata ☰ Q69412442 entry
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