Sauvallea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Commelinaless

Familia: Commelinaceae
Subfamilia: Commelinoideae
Tribus: Tradescantieae
Subtribus: Thyrsantheminae
Genus: Sauvallea
Species: S. blainii
Name

Sauvallea C.Wright, Anales Acad. Ci. Méd. Habana 7: 608 (1871)
References

Wright, C. (1871) Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana 7: 608. BHL
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Sauvallea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2015 Sept. 2. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Sauvallea. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 2 2015.
Tropicos.org 2015. Sauvallea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 2 Sept. 2015.

Sauvallea is a monotypic genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the dayflower family, first described as a genus in 1871. The genus consists of a single species, Sauvallea blainii, which was endemic to Cuba.

The species is believed to be extinct.[1][2][3]

The genus name of Sauvallea is in honour of Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle (1807–1879), Cuban botanist and expert in molluscs.[4] It is not known what the Latin specific epithet of blainii refers to.

It was first described and published in Anales Acad. Ci. Méd. Habana Vol.7 on page 608 in 1871. Plants of the World Online note that Sauvallea C.Wright, is a synonym of Sauvallia C.Wright ex Hassk.[5]

It was placed within Subtribe Thyrsantheminae, due to its solitary spathe inclosing a single flower. It also has six, equal, filaments bearded (as part of the stamen) and subequal petals. Specimens exist at the Missouri Dunn-Palmer Herbarium.[6]
References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Brian Groombridge (Editor) Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources (1992) , p. PA223, at Google Books
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.
"Sauvallea C.Wright | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
Hertweck, Kate L.; Chris Pire, J. (2014). "Systematics and Evolution of Inflorescence Structure in the Tradescantia Alliance (Commelinaceae) 1,2,3 and". Systematic Botany. 39 (1): 105–116.