Sauvallia

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Sauvallia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Commelinales
Family: Commelinaceae
Subfamily: Commelinoideae
Tribe: Tradescantieae
Subtribe: Thyrsanthemineae
Genus: Sauvallia
C.Wright ex Hassk.
Species:
S. blainii
Binomial name
Sauvallia blainii
C.Wright ex Hassk.
Synonyms [1]
  • Commelina blainii(C.Wright) Woodson
  • Sauvallea blainiiC.Wright

Sauvallia is a monotypic genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Commelinaceae, first described as a genus in 1871. The genus consists of a single species, Sauvallia blainii, which was endemic to Cuba.

The species is believed to be extinct. [1] [2] [3]

The genus name of Sauvallia is in honour of Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle (1807–1879), Cuban botanist and expert in molluscs. [4] It is not known what the Latin specific epithet of blainii refers to.

It was first described and published in Commelin. Ind.: 61 in 1870. Plants of the World Online note that Sauvallea C.Wright, is a synonym of SauvalliaC.Wright ex Hassk. [5]

It was placed within subtribe Thyrsanthemineae, due to its solitary spathe inclosing a single flower. It also has six, equal, filaments bearded (as part of the stamen) and subequal petals. Specimens exist at the Missouri Dunn-Palmer Herbarium. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  3. ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Brian Groombridge (Editor) Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources (1992) , p. PA223, at Google Books
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Sauvallea C.Wright | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  6. ↑ Hertweck, Kate L.; Chris Pire, J. (2014). "Systematics and Evolution of Inflorescence Structure in the Tradescantia Alliance (Commelinaceae) 1,2,3 and". Systematic Botany. 39 (1): 105–116. doi:10.1600/036364414X677991.

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