Pedersenia

Pedersenia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.[1]

Pedersenia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Pedersenia
Holub
Synonyms

Trommsdorffia Mart.

Its native range is mainland tropical America, from Honduras to Paraguay, and Puerto Rico and the Windward Islands.[1]

The genus name of Pedersenia is in honour of Troels Myndel Pedersen (1916–2000), a Danish-born Argentinian botanist with a large herbarium and also specialist in Amaranthaceae.[2] It was first described and published in Preslia Vol.70 on page 181 in 1998.[1]

Known species

According to Kew:[1]

  • Pedersenia argentata (Mart.) Holub
  • Pedersenia cardenasii (Standl.) Holub
  • Pedersenia completa (Uline & W.L.Bray) Borsch
  • Pedersenia costaricensis (Standl.) Holub
  • Pedersenia hassleriana (Chodat) Pedersen
  • Pedersenia macrophylla (R.E.Fr.) Holub
  • Pedersenia volubilis Borsch, T.Ortuño & M.Nee
  • Pedersenia weberbaueri (Suess.) Holub

References
  1. "Pedersenia Holub | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 March 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.


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