Ottoschmidtia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Cinchonoideae
Tribus: Guettardeae
Genus: Ottoschmidtia
Species: O. microphylla
Name

Ottoschmidtia Urb., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 20: 312. (1924)

monotypic taxon
Typus: Ottoschmidtia dorsiventralis Urb., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 20: 312. (1924) vide Ottoschmidtia microphylla subsp. microphylla.

References

Urban, I. 1924. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 20: 312.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Ottoschmidtia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 10. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Ottoschmidtia. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 10 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Ottoschmidtia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 10.

Ottoschmidtia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Ottoschmidtia microphylla (Griseb.) Urb.

Its native range is Caribbean, it is found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.[1]

The genus name of Ottoschmidtia is in honour of Otto Christian Schmidt (1900–1951), a German botanist, professor in Berlin and Münster. He was also a specialist in algae.[3] The Latin specific epithet of microphylla is a portmanteau word derived from 'micro-' meaning small and also 'phylla' meaning leaf.[4] The genus was first described and published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Vol.20 on page 312 in 1924.[2] The species was published in Ark. Bot. Vol.21A (Isue 5) on page 85 in 1927.[1]
Subspecies

According to Kew.[1]

Ottoschmidtia microphylla subsp. haitiensis (Urb.) Borhidi, from Dominican Republic, Haiti
Ottoschmidtia microphylla subsp. microphylla ,from Cuba

References

"Ottoschmidtia microphylla (Griseb.) Urb". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
"Ottoschmidtia Urb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 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.
Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.