Rydingia

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Rydingia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Lamioideae
Genus: Rydingia
Scheen & V.A.Albert

Rydingia (tinjute) is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 2007. The genus is native to eastern Africa and south-western Asia, and found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, West Himalaya and Yemen. [1]

The genus was circumscribed by Anne-Cathrine Scheen and Victor Anthony Albert in Syst. & Geogr. Pl. vol.77 (2) on page 234 in 2007. [1]

The genus name of Rydingia is in honour of Per Olof Ryding (b.1951), a Swedish botanist and plant collector in Africa, from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. [2]

Species

As accepted by Plants of the World Online; [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rydingia Scheen & V.A.Albert | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.