Hartliella
| Hartliella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Linderniaceae |
| Genus: | Hartliella Eb.Fisch. |
Hartliella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Linderniaceae.[1]
Its native range is southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]
General description
[edit]Perennial plants with large sub-terraneous woody rhizomes growing on heavy metal soils. Leaves are largely ovoid, leathery and have a somewhat shining appearance. The lower lip of corolla (petals of the flower) is lacking yellow club-shaped hairs with pluricellular (many cells) base. The filament (stalk) of abaxial (facing away) stamens only weakly curved with a small basal knee-like append-age present or absent.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus name of Hartliella is in honour of Dimitri Hartl (1926–2015), a German botanist, professor at the University of Mainz and worked on Scrophulariaceae family.[3] It was first described and published in Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt Vol.81 on page 204 in 1992.[1]
Known species, according to Kew:[1]
- Hartliella bampsii (Eb.Fisch.) Eb.Fisch.
- Hartliella capitata (Eb.Fisch.) Eb.Fisch.
- Hartliella cupricola Eb.Fisch.
- Hartliella suffruticosa (Lisowski & Mielcarek) Eb.Fisch.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Hartliella Eb.Fisch. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ Fischer, Eberhard; Schäferhoff, Bastian; Müller, Kai F (December 2013). "The phylogeny of Linderniaceae – The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia". Willdenowia. 43 (2): 209–238. doi:10.3372/wi.43.43201.
- ^ 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.
Other sources
[edit]- Énum. Pl. Fleurs Afr. Trop. 4: 431 (1997)