Mechowia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Mechowia

Species: M. grandiflora – M. redactifolia
Name

Mechowia Schinz, Nat. Pflanzenfam. [Engler & Prantl] 3, 1a: 110. (1893) / et in Bot. Jahrb. 21: 186. (1895)

Type: Mechowia grandiflora Schinz

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Africa
West-Central Tropical Africa
D.R.Congo (Zaire)
South Tropical Africa
Angola, Zambia

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

Schinz, H. 1893. Amarantaceae. pp. 91–118. In: Engler, A. & Prantl, K. (eds.), Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, III Teil, Abteilung 1a. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. BHL Reference page. : 110
Schinz, H. 1895. Amarantaceae africanae. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 21: 178–191. BHL Reference page. : 186

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Mechowia. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 11. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Mechowia. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 11 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Mechowia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 11. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Mechowia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 Apr. 2019.

Mechowia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.[1] It is also in the Amaranthoideae subfamily.

It is native to Angola, Zambia and Zaïre (or Democratic Republic of the Congo).[1]

The genus name of Mechowia is in honour of Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Mechow (1831–1890), a Prussian explorer of Africa, and a naturalist. Von Mechow was a specialty collector of phanerogams, particularly in Angola. He also held the rank of major in the Prussian Army.[2] It was first described and published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. Vol.3 (Issue 1a) on page 110 in 1893.[1]
Known species

According to Kew:[1]

Mechowia grandiflora Schinz
Mechowia redactifolia C.C.Towns.

References

"Mechowia Schinz | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.