Saintpauliopsis

Saintpauliopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Saintpauliopsis lebrunii Staner [2]

Saintpauliopsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Saintpauliopsis
Staner
Synonyms[1]

Staurogyne lebrunii (Staner) B.L.Burtt

It is native to Burundi, Gabon, Madagascar, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zaïre.[2]

Saintpauliopsis was originally classified in the family Gesneriaceae and the genus name, meaning "similar to Saintpaulia" (now synonymized under Streptocarpus), indirectly honors Walter Le Tanneux de Saint Paul-Illaire (1860–1940), a German imperial precinct captain in German East Africa (roughly present-day Tanzania), and his father, Ulrich Maximilian von Saint Paul-Illaire (1833–1902), a German naval officer and court official.[3] The Latin specific epithet of lebrunii refers to Belgian botanist Lebrun, Jean Paul Antoine (1906-1985).[4] It was first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles Vol.13 on page 8 in 1934.[2]

References
  1. "Saintpauliopsis lebrunii Staner". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  2. "Saintpauliopsis Staner | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  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.
  4. "Lebrun, Jean Paul Antoine | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
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