Mannagettaea

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Mannagettaea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Orobanchaceae
Genus: Mannagettaea
Harry Sm.

Mannagettaea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orobanchaceae. [1] It is a holoparasitic plant. [2]

It is native to southern Siberia (within Irkutsk Oblast and Tuva) and also northern China (in Qinghai). [1]

The genus name of Mannagettaea is in honour of Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856–1931), a prominent Austrian botanist. [3] It was first described and published in Acta Horti Gothob. Vol.8 on page 135 in 1933. [1]

Known species, according to Kew; [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mannagettaea Harry Sm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. Fu, Weirui; Liu, Xiaoqing; Zhang, Naixin; Song, Zhiping; Zhang, Wenju; Yang, Ji; Wang, Yuguo (15 August 2017). "Testing the Hypothesis of Multiple Origins of Holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae: Phylogenetic Evidence from the Last Two Unplaced Holoparasitic Genera, Gleadovia and Phacellanthus". Front. Plant Sci. 8: 1380. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01380 . PMC   5559707 . PMID   28861092.
  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.