Schweinfurthia (plant)

Schweinfurthia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.[1] It is also in Tribe Antirrhineae.

Schweinfurthia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Schweinfurthia
A.Braun
Synonyms

Etornotus Raf.

Its native range is north-eastern and eastern Tropical Africa (within Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania), the island of Comoros (in the western Indian Ocean), Arabian Peninsula (within Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), Afghanistan, Iran to Pakistan and India.[1]

The genus name of Schweinfurthia is in honour of Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), a Baltic German botanist and ethnologist who explored East Central Africa.[2] It was first described and published in Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Vol.20 on page 24 in 1866.[1]

Known species

According to Kew:[1]

  • Schweinfurthia imbricata A.G.Mill., M.Short & D.A.Sutton
  • Schweinfurthia latifolia Baker
  • Schweinfurthia papilionacea (L.) Boiss.
  • Schweinfurthia pedicellata (T.Anderson) Balf.f.
  • Schweinfurthia pterosperma (A.Rich.) A.Braun
  • Schweinfurthia spinosa A.G.Mill., M.Short & D.A.Sutton

References
  1. "Schweinfurthia A.Braun | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 May 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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