Holmbergia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Chenopodioideae
Tribus: Chenopodieae (incl. Atripliceae)
Genus: Holmbergia

Species: H. tweedii

Names in synonymy: H. exocarpa
Name

Holmbergia Hicken, Apuntes Hist. Nat. 1: 65. (1909)

Type species: Holmbergia exocarpa (Griseb.) Hicken = Holmbergia tweedii (Moq.) Speg.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Southern America
Western South America
Bolivia
Southern South America
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay, Uruguay

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Hicken, C.M. 1909. Holmbergia Hicken, Chenopodiacearum novum genus. (Un nuevo género de Quenopodiáceas). Apuntes de Historia Natural 1: 65–67. Bilioteca Digital Reference page.

Additional references

Zacharias, E.H. & Baldwin, B.G. 2010. A molecular phylogeny of North American Atripliceae (Chenopodiaceae), with implications for floral and photosynthetic pathway evolution. Systematic Botany 35(4): 839–857. DOI: 10.1600/036364410X539907 Reference page.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Holmbergia. 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 online. Accessed: 2018 September 26. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Holmbergia. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 28 2016.
The Plant List 2013. Holmbergia in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Feb. 28.
Tropicos.org 2016. Holmbergia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 28 Feb. 2016.

Holmbergia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.[1] It only contains one species, Holmbergia tweediei (Moq.) Speg. [2]

Its native range is in southern South America. It is found in Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.[2]

The genus name of Holmbergia is in honour of Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (1775–1862) , an Argentine natural historian and novelist, as well as a leading figure in Argentine biology.[3] The Latin specific epithet of tweediei refers to botanist John (James) Tweedie (1900-1989).[4]

The genus of Holmbergia was first described and published in Apuntes Hist. Nat. Vol.1 on page 65 in 1909.[1] and the species, Holmbergia tweediei was first described and published in Physis (Buenos Aires) Vol.2 on page 178 in 1916.[2]
References

"Holmbergia Hicken | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
"Holmbergia tweediei (Moq.) Speg". Retrieved 1 October 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.
Moquin in A.P. De Candolle. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. volume 13(2). page 63. 1849.[1]