Schweinfurthia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Plantaginaceae
Tribus: Antirrhineae
Genus: Schweinfurthia
Species: S. imbricata – S. latifolia – S. papilionacea – S. pedicellata – S. pterosperma
Name

Schweinfurthia A. Braun Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 1866: 24. (1866)

Type species: Non designatus

References

Braun, A.K.H. (1866) Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1866: 24.
Hassler, M. 2018. Schweinfurthia. 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. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Dec. 27. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2014. Schweinfurthia. Published online. Accessed: May 31 2014.
Tropicos.org 2014. Schweinfurthia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 31 May 2014.

Schweinfurthia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.[1] It is also in Tribe Antirrhineae.

Its native range is north-eastern and eastern Tropical Africa (within Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania), the island of Comoros (in the western Indian Ocean), Arabian Peninsula (within Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), Afghanistan, Iran to Pakistan and India.[1]

The genus name of Schweinfurthia is in honour of Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), a Baltic German botanist and ethnologist who explored East Central Africa.[2] It was first described and published in Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Vol.20 on page 24 in 1866.[1]
Known species

According to Kew:[1]

Schweinfurthia imbricata A.G.Mill., M.Short & D.A.Sutton
Schweinfurthia latifolia Baker
Schweinfurthia papilionacea (L.) Boiss.
Schweinfurthia pedicellata (T.Anderson) Balf.f.
Schweinfurthia pterosperma (A.Rich.) A.Braun
Schweinfurthia spinosa A.G.Mill., M.Short & D.A.Sutton

References

"Schweinfurthia A.Braun | 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.