Edgeworthia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Malvales

Familia: Thymelaeaceae
Genus: Edgeworthia
Species: E. albiflora – E. chrysantha – E. eriosolenoides – E. gardneri – E. longipes
Source(s) of checklist:

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Edgeworthia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Dec 5. Reference page.

Name

Edgeworthia Meisn. (1841)

Type species: Edgeworthia gardneri (Wall.) Meisn.

Synonymy

Edgworthia Lindl. J. Hort. Soc. London 1: 148 (1846)

References

Meisner, C.D.F. (1841) Denkschr. Bot. Ges. Regensb. 3: 280. t. 6.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Edgeworthia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Edgeworthia (paper bush) is a genus of plants in the family Thymelaeaceae. When the genus was first described, it was published twice in the same year (1841), in two separate publications: Plantarum vascularium genera: secundum ordines naturales digesta eorumque differentiae et affinitates tabulis diagnostacis expositae;[1] and Denkschriften der Regensburgischen Botanischen Gesellschaft.[2] The genus was named in honour of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, an Irish-born botanist and official in the Bengal Civil Service, then stationed in India, and for his half-sister, writer Maria Edgeworth.[2]
Species

Species list from both GRIN[4] and ThePlantList[5]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Edgeworthia albiflora Nakai	Sichuan, China
	Edgeworthia chrysantha Lindl.	Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang provinces of China
	Edgeworthia eriosolenoides K.M.Feng & S.C.Huang	SE Yunnan, China
	Edgeworthia gardneri (Wall.) Meisn.	Bhutan, India, N Myanmar, Nepal, China(E Xizang, NW Yunnan), Vietnam
	Edgeworthia longipes Lace	Myanmar, India

References

In: Plantarum vascularium genera: secundum ordines naturales digesta eorumque differentiae et affinitates tabulis diagnostacis expositae. 1: 330. 1841. "Name - !Edgeworthia Meisn". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
In: Denkschriften der Regensburgischen Botanischen Gesellschaft. Regensburg. iii. (1841) 280. t. 6. "Plant Name Details for Genus Edgeworthia". IPNI. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
The type species, E. gardneri was taken from its basionym, Daphne gardneri (which was first published in Asiatic Researches 13: 388, pl. 9. 1820.) "Name - Daphne gardneri Wall". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
GRIN. "Species in GRIN for genus Edgeworthia". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived from the original on December 11, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
"Query for Edgeworthia". ThePlantList. Retrieved June 30, 2011.