Koehneola

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Koehneola
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Coreopsideae
Genus: Koehneola
Urb.
Species:
K. repens
Binomial name
Koehneola repens
Synonyms [1] [2]

Microcoecia repensGriseb.Pinillosia repensBenth. & Hook.f.
Tetranthus repensO.Hoffm.

Koehneola is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. [3] [4] There is only one known species, Koehneola repens. [2]

It is native to Cuba. [5]

The genus name of Koehneola is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland, [6] The Latin specific epithet of repens means creeping or crawling. [7] Both genus and species were described and published in Symb. Antill. Vol.2 on pages 463–464 in 1901. [2]

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References

  1. The International Plant Names Index
  2. 1 2 3 "Koehneola repens (O.Hoffm.) Urb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  3. Urban, Ignatz. 1901. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 2(3): 463
  4. Tropicos, Koehneola Urb.
  5. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  6. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-8493-2676-9.
  7. Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199102051.