Schelhammera

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Liliales

Familia: Colchicaceae
Tribus: Tripladenieae

Genus: Schelhammera
Species: S. multiflora - S. undulata
Name

Schelhammera R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 273 (1810).

Type species: Schelhammera undulata R. Br.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Kreysigia Rchb., Iconogr. Bot. Exot. 3: 11 (1830).
Parduyna Salisb., Gen. Pl.: 58 (1866).

References

Brown, R. 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. pp. i–viii + 145–590, Londini: R.Taylor. BHL Reference page. : 3: 11

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Schelhammera in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 23. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Schelhammera. 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 online. Accessed: 2019 October 23. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Schelhammera. Published online. Accessed: October 23 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Schelhammera. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 23 October 2019.

Vernacular names

Schelhammera is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Colchicaceae, comprising two species.

Schelhammera undulata R.Br., native to New South Wales and Victoria[1]
Schelhammera multiflora R.Br., native to Queensland,[2] New Guinea and Malesia.[3]

The genus was first formerly described by botanist Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.[2] The genus was named in honour of Günther Christoph Schelhammer.

The genus Kuntheria was described for the third species of Schelhammera, namely Schelhammera pedunculata, by Clifford and Conran for the Australian Flora in 1987.[4] The German botanist Mueller who described it had stated that this taxon "either requires specific distinction, or should perhaps be regarded as a gigantic form of S. multiflora".[5]
References

Harden G.J. "Genus Schelhammera". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
"Scelhammera". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
Kramer, Karl Ulrich, Klaus Kubitzki, Herbert Huber and P. S. Green (27 August 1998). The families and genera of vascular plants Volume III. Springer. ISBN 3540640606. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
Conran, J.G. in George, A.S. (Ed) (1987), Flora of Australia 45: 491 (418, Map 474)
Mueller, F. (1890) The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 7, p. 182.