Schindleria

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Petiveriaceae
Genus: Schindleria
Species: S. densiflora – S. racemosa – S. tomentosa
Name

Schindleria H.Walter Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37(4, Beibl. 85): 24. (1906)

Type species: non designatus

References

1906. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 37(Beibl. 85): 24.
Hassler, M. 2017. Schindleria. 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. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2017 May 10. Reference page.
Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Mering, S. v., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler R., Ocampo G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R. K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B. O. & Uotila, P. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45(3): 281–383. DOI: 10.3372/wi.45.45301 Open access Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Schindleria. Published online. Accessed: May 10 2017.
Tropicos.org 2017. Schindleria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 10 May 2017.

Schindleria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Petiveriaceae.[1]

It is native to Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay in South America.[1]

Description

They have a semi-shrubby nature,[2] with erect racemes with a single floral bract and 2 minute bracteoles (a small bracts).[2] They have bisexual (bearing both male and female reproductive organs),[3] actinomorphic flowers (regular or radially symmetrical). The flowers have four petals,[3] with usually 3 parallel veins.[2] They many stamens (between 12 and 25),[2][3] and the ovary is cylindric or ovoid (in shape),[3] and one-carpellate (consisting of carpels).[2] The style is absent and the stigma is penicillate (tufted like an artist's brush).[3] It has utricle type of fruit (like a small bladder).[2][3]

The pollen grains are similar in form to those of members of the Chenopodioideae family (including Amaranthus and Celosia). They are about 27 μms in diameter.[4]
Known species

In 1906, when published there were 4 known species, (S. glabra, S. racemosa, S. rivinoides and S. Rosea) then 3 other species were added later up to 1952. S. mollis in 1909, S. weberbaueri in 1923 and S. densiflora (which was transferred from Rivina densiflora) in 1952. Then in 1962, American botanist Joan Nowicke re-ordered the genus and only accepted just 2 known species, Schindleria densiflora and Schindleria racemosa. Then in 2006, Jon M. Ricketson added Schindleria tomentosa.[2]

There are 3 accepted species, according to Plants of the World Online,[1]

Schindleria densiflora (Kuntze) Monach. – Bolivia, Peru
Schindleria racemosa (Britton ex Rusby) H.Walter – Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru
Schindleria tomentosa Ricketson – Peru

The type species was never named.
Taxonomy

The genus name of Schindleria is in honour of Anton Karl Schindler (1879–1964), a German dentist and botanist.[5] It was first described and published in Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. Vol.85 on page 24 in 1906.[1]

It was once thought to be part of the Phytolaccaceae family,[2] before moving to the Petiveriaceae family,[6] in 1985.[7]

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.[8]
References

"Schindleria H.Walter | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
Ricketson, Jon M. (October 2006). "A New Species and Conservation Status of Schindleria (Phytolaccaceae) from Peru". Novon. 16 (3): 404–408. doi:10.3417/1055-3177(2006)16[404:ANSACS]2.0.CO;2.
Klaus Kubitzki, Jens G. Rohwer and Volker Bittrich (Editors) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants II · Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid Families (1993), p. 513, at Google Books
Gunnar Erdtman Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy: Angiosperms (1986), p. 108, 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
Charles R. Gunn Families and Genera of Spermatophytes Recognized by the Agricultural Research Service (1992), p. 238, at Google Books
Brown, G. K.; Varadarajan, G. S. (January–March 1985). "Studies in Caryophyllales I: Re-evaluation of Classification of Phytolaccaceae s.1". Systematic Botany. 10 (1): 49–63. doi:10.2307/2418434. JSTOR 2418434.

"Genus Schindleria H. Walter". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 27 January 2022.

Other sources

Field Columbian Museum, 1936, Fieldiana: Botany, Volume 13, Part 2, Flora of Peru
Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Mering, S. v., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler R., Ocampo G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R. K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B. O. & Uotila, P. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45(3): 281–383