Sandemania
| Sandemania | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Melastomataceae |
| Genus: | Sandemania Gleason |
| Species: | S. hoehnei
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| Binomial name | |
| Sandemania hoehnei | |
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Sandemania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. The only known species is Sandemania hoehnei.[2]
Its native range is southern Tropical America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil (northern and west-central), Peru and Venezuela.[2]
The genus name of Sandemania is in honour of Christopher Albert Walter Sandeman (1882–1951), an English botanist and traveler. He collected in South America.[3] The Latin specific epithet of hoehnei refers to Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959), a Brazilian botanist.[4] The genus was first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939, onpage 480 in 1939.[2] The species was then first published in Phytologia Vol.20 on page 370 in 1970.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Sandemania hoehnei (Cogn.) Wurdack". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ a b c "Sandemania Gleason | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 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.
- ^ "Hoehne, Frederico Carlos | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 6 December 2021.