Georgeantha

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Ecdeiocoleaceae
Genus: Georgeantha
Species: Georgeantha hexandra
Name

Georgeantha B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson, Telopea 7: 307. 1998.

Type species: Georgeantha hexandra B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson

References

Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. 1998. Georgeantha hexandra, a new genus and species of Ecdeiocoleaceae (Poales) from Western Australia. Telopea 7(4): 307–312. PDF Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Georgeantha in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 08. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Georgeantha in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 08. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Georgeantha. Published online. Accessed: Apr 08 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Georgeantha. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 08.

Georgeantha is a monotypic genus of herbaceous, rhizomatous plant endemic to Western Australia.[1] The sole species is Georgeantha hexandra. The genus is named after Western Australian botanist Alex George, and the specific epithet, "hexandra", is said to refer to the six (Greek, hexa) stamens (-andrus, male).[1] The proper word for "six" in ancient Greek is however hex (ἕξ).[2] No words in ancient Greek can be found on -andrus, however words on -andros (-ανδρος) are attested, such as misandros (μίσανδρος, hating men) and polyandros (πολύανδρος, full of men, populous) with anēr (ἀνήρ) as proper word for man.[2]

References

Briggs, Barbara G.; Johnson, L.A.S. (1998). "Georgeantha hexandra, a new genus and species of Ecdeiocoleaceae (Poales) from Western Australia". Telopea. 7 (4): 307–312.
Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.