Siemensia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Cinchonoideae
Tribus: Chiococceae
Genus: Siemensia
Species: S. pendula
Name

Siemensia Urb., Symb. Antill. 9: 143. (1923)

monotypic taxon

References

Urban, I. 1923. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 9: 143.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Siemensia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Feb. 11. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Siemensia. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 11 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Siemensia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Feb. 11.

Siemensia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Siemensia pendula (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Urb. [1]

Its native range is western Cuba.[1]

The genus name of Siemensia is in honour of Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He founded the electrical and telecommunications conglomerate Siemens.[2] The Latin specific epithet of pendula means hanging.[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Symb. Antill. Vol.9 on page 143 in 1923.[1]
References

"Siemensia Urb. | 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.
Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.