Sandemania

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Sandemania
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Sandemania
Gleason
Species:
S. hoehnei
Binomial name
Sandemania hoehnei
Synonyms [1]
  • ComoliaCogn. ex Hoehne
  • Leandra cogniauxiiUle
  • Leandra purpurascensCogn.
  • Sandemania cogniauxii(Ule) Wurdack
  • Sandemania glandulosaWurdack
  • Sandemania lilacinaGleason

Sandemania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. The only known species is Sandemania hoehnei. [2]

Its native range is southern Tropical America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil (northern and west-central), Peru and Venezuela. [2]

The genus name of Sandemania is in honour of Christopher Albert Walter Sandeman (1882–1951), an English botanist and traveler. He collected in South America. [3] The Latin specific epithet of hoehnei refers to Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959), a Brazilian botanist. [4] The genus was first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939, onpage 480 in 1939. [2] The species was then first published in Phytologia Vol.20 on page 370 in 1970. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sandemania hoehnei (Cogn.) Wurdack". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Sandemania Gleason | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Hoehne, Frederico Carlos | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
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