Seetzenia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Zygophyllales

Familia: Zygophyllaceae
Subfamilia: Seetzenioideae
Genus: Seetzenia
Species: S. lanata
Name

Seetzenia R.Br. ex Decne.
References

USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Seetzenia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Seetzenia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Zygophyllaceae.[1]

Its native range is the Sahara to north-eastern Tropical Africa (in Algeria, the Cape Provinces, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Sudan and the Western Sahara), Arabian Peninsula (in Afghanistan, the Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen), the Sinai to India.[1]

The genus name of Seetzenia is in honour of Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1767–1811), a German explorer of Arabia and Palestine from Jever, German Frisia.[2] It was first described and published in Narr. Travels Africa on page 231 in 1826.[1]
Known species

According to Kew:[1]

Seetzenia lanata (Willd.) Bullock
Seetzenia orientalis Decne.

References

"Seetzenia R.Br. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 March 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.