Sheilanthera

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Sheilanthera
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A herbarium collection of Sheilanthera pubens from Auckland Museum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Zanthoxyloideae
Genus: Sheilanthera
I.Williams
Species:
S. pubens
Binomial name
Sheilanthera pubens
I.Williams

Sheilanthera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. The only known species is Sheilanthera pubens. [1]

It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. [1]

The genus name of Sheilanthera is in honour of Sheila Williams, wife and colleague of Ion James Muirhead Williams (1912–2001), a South African botanist and author of the genus. [2] The Latin specific epithet of pubens means fuzzy or pubescent, derived from pubesco. [3] It was first described and published in J. S. African Bot. Vol.47 on page 761 in 1981. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sheilanthera I.Williams | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN   978-1845337315.