Przewalskia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Solanaceae
Subfamilia: Solanoideae
Tribus: Hyoscyameae
Genus: Przewalskia
Species: P. shebbearei – P. tangutica
Name

Przewalskia Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 27(Phys.-Math.): 507. (1882)

Type species: Przewalskia tangutica Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 27(Phys.-Math.): 508. (1882)

References

Maximowicz, C.J. 1882. Bulletin de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 27(Phys.-Math.): 507.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Przewalskia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Nov. 1. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Przewalskia. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 1 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Przewalskia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 1 Nov. 2020.

Przewalskia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae.[1]

Its native range is western and central China, Tibet to eastern Himalaya.[1]

The genus name of Przewalskia is in honour of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839–1888), a Russian Imperial geographer and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia.[2] It was first described and published in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, séries 3, Vol.27 on page 507 in 1882.[1]

Known species, according to Kew:[1]

Przewalskia shebbearei (C.E.C.Fisch.) Grubov
Przewalskia tangutica Maxim.

References

"Przewalskia Maxim. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 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.