Classification System: APG IV
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Dioscoreales
Familia: Burmanniaceae
Tribus: Burmannieae
Genus: Marthella
Species: M. trinitatis
Name
Marthella Urb., Symb. Antill. 3: 440 (1903)
References
Urban, I. (1903) Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 3: 440, 448. BHL
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Marthella in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Sept. 12. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Marthella. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 12 2015.
Tropicos.org 2015. Marthella. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Sept. 12.
Marthella is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1903. It contains only one known species, Marthella trinitatis, endemic to the Island of Trinidad.[1][2] It is considered critically endangered and only naturally appears in Northern Range Forest Reserve Section B. As a conservation measure, it is being cared for in the Heights of Aripo Village as a form of ex situ conservation.[3]
References
"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Van den Eynden, V., Oatham, M., & Johnson, W. (2008). How free access internet resources benefit biodiversity and conservation research: Trinidad and Tobago's endemic plants and their conservation status. Oryx, 42(3), 400-407. doi:10.1017/S0030605308007321
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