Muehlbergella
Muehlbergella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae. It contains a single species, Muehlbergella oweriniana. It is critically endangered
| Muehlbergella | |
|---|---|
| Muehlbergella oweriniana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
| Subfamily: | Campanuloideae |
| Genus: | Muehlbergella Feer |
| Species: | M. oweriniana |
| Binomial name | |
| Muehlbergella oweriniana (Rupr.) Feer | |
| Synonyms | |
| Edraianthus owerinianus (Rupr.) Boiss. | |
Distribution edit
The species is endemic to an area of ~40 km2 in Dagestan, North Caucasus, where it grows between cracks and calcareous rocky ground.[2]
Taxonomy edit
The genus and species were both described by Heinrich Feer and published in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie Vol.12 (Issue 5) on pages 615–616 in 1890.[3]
The genus name of Muehlbergella is in honour of Friedrich Mühlberg (1840–1915), a Swiss geologist.[4] The Latin specific epithet of oweriniana refers to the original collector, Alexander Pavlovic Owerin, a Russian military topographer, florist, and botanical collector. Owerin had collected plants from the mountains of Dagestan (1860–61) and other places in the Caucasus.[5]
References edit
- ^ Murtazaliev, R. (2014). "Owerin's Muchlenbergella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life - 2010 Annual Checklist :: Species details". www.catalogueoflife.org.
- ^ "Muehlbergella Feer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Eddie, Bill (2018). "What's in a Name? The Introduction of Muehlbergella oweriniana to Cultivation and the Recognition of Monotypic Genera". The Rock Garden. 140: 62–65.