Warnockia

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Warnockia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Lamioideae
Genus: Warnockia
M.W. Turner
Species:
W. scutellarioides
Binomial name
Warnockia scutellarioides
(Engelm. & Gray) M.W. Turner
Synonyms [1]
  • Brazoria scutellarioidesEngelm. & A.Gray
  • Brazoria roemerianaScheele

Warnockia is a genus from the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1996. It contains only one known species, Warnockia scutellarioides, the prairie brazosmint, native to the south-central United States (Texas and Oklahoma) and northern Mexico (Coahuila). [1] [2]

Etymology

The genus name honors Barton Warnock, a 20th-century Texan botanist.

The specific epithet scutellarioides (suffixed with -oides ) means " Scutellaria -like", referring to a resemblance to another genus in the Lamiaceae. [3]

It was also called the prairie brazoria, as it was formerly placed in the genus Brazoria . [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Biota of North America, 2013 county distribution map
  3. 1 2 Amanda Neill, ed. (2005). A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers of Texas & the Southern Great Plains. TCU Press. p. 163. ISBN   978-0-87565-309-9. OCLC   1162417755.