Preussiodora
Preussiodora | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Rubiaceae |
Subfamily: | Ixoroideae |
Tribe: | Gardenieae |
Genus: | Preussiodora Keay |
Species: | P. sulphurea |
Binomial name | |
Preussiodora sulphurea (K.Schum.) Keay | |
Synonyms | |
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Preussiodora is a genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae.[1] It contains only one species, Preussiodora sulphurea, native to central Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, and the islands in the Gulf of Guinea).[2]
The genus name of Preussiodora is in honour of Paul Rudolf Preuss (1861–1926), a German botanist and researcher. He founded and directed a botanical garden in Kamerun (now called Cameroon).[3] The Latin specific epithet of sulphurea means sulphur-yellow.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles Vol.28 on pages 31–32 in 1958.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Keay, Ronald William John (1958). "Randia and Gardenia in West Africa". Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles. 28 (1): 31. doi:10.2307/3667018. JSTOR 3667018.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
- ^ "Preussiodora Keay | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 November 2021.