Heeria

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Anacardiaceae
Subfamilia: Anacardioideae
Genus: Heeria
Species: H. argentea
Name

Heeria Meisn., 1844

Type not designated.

References

Meisner, C.D.F., Plantarum vascularium genera secundum ordines ... 1: 75. 1837.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Heeria. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Aug. 08. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Heeria. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 08 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Heeria in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Aug. 08.
Tropicos.org 2018. Heeria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Aug. 08.

Heeria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae.[1] It only contains one species, Heeria argentea (Thunb.) Meisn. [2]

It is native to the South African Republic, mainly the Cape Provinces.[2]

The genus name of Heeria is in honour of Oswald Heer (1809–1883), a Swiss geologist and naturalist.[3] The Latin specific epithet of argentea refers to silvery.[4] Heeria argentea was first described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. Vol.2 on page 55 in 1837.[2]

It has the following synonyms; Anaphrenium argenteum (Thunb.) E.Mey., Rhus argentea (Thunb.) Druce, Rhus argyrophylla C.Presl, Rhus thunbergii Hook. and Roemeria argentea (Thunb.) Thunb.[2]
References

"Heeria Meisn. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
"Heeria argentea (Thunb.) Meisn. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199102051.