Ottosonderia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Aizoaceae
Genus: Ottosonderia
Species: O. monticola – O. obtusa
Name

Ottosonderia L.Bolus, 1958.
References

The International Plant Names Index Ottosonderia.
Bolus, Harriet Margaret Louisa, 1958: Notes on Mesembryanthemum and allied genera. Cape Town (S Africa), Pt. 3, 292.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Ottosonderia. .

Ottosonderia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.[1]

Its native range is the Cape Provinces in South Africa.[1]

The genus name of Ottosonderia is in honour of Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–1881), a German botanist and pharmacist.[2] It was first described and published in Notes Mesembryanthemum Vol.3 on page 292 in 1958.[1]
Known species

According to Kew:[1]

Ottosonderia monticola (Sond.) L.Bolus
Ottosonderia obtusa L.Bolus

References

"Ottosonderia L.Bolus | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 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.