Nelsia

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: Nelsia

Species: N. angolensis – N. quadrangula – N. tropidogyna
Name

Nelsia Schinz, Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich lvi. 247 (1911).

Type: Nelsia quadrangula (Engl.) Schinz

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Africa
South Tropical Africa
Angola
Southern Africa
Botswana, Namibia

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

Schinz, H. 1911. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der afrikanischen Flora XXIV. (Thellung, A. & Schinz, H.) Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 56: 229–268. BHL Reference page. : 247

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Nelsia. 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 on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Feb. 06. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Nelsia. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 06 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Nelsia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jul. 13. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Nelsia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Feb. 06.

Nelsia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.[1] It is with the Amaranthoideae subfamily.

It is native to Angola, Botswana and Namibia.[1]

The genus name of Nelsia is in honour of Louis Nels (1855–1910), a German government official who served as acting Reichskommissar in German South West Africa in 1890–1891.[2] It was first described and published in Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich Vol.56 on page 247 in 1911.[1]
Known species

Acccording to Kew:[1]

Nelsia angolensis Bamps
Nelsia quadrangula (Engl.) Schinz
Nelsia tropidogyna C.C.Towns.

References

"Nelsia 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.