Tammsia

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: Ixoroideae
Tribus: Condamineeae
Genus: Tammsia
Species: T. anomala
Name

Tammsia H.Karst., Fl. Columb. 1: 179. (1861)

monotypic taxon

References

Karsten, G.K.W.H. 1861. Florae Columbiae 1: 179.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Tammsia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 30. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Tammsia. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 30 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Tammsia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 30.

Tammsia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Rubiaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Tammsia anomala H.Karst.[1]

It is native to Colombia, Peru and Venezuela in western South America.[1]

The genus name of Tammsia is in honour of Georg Tamms, a German doctor from Altona (near Hamburg), who was also a plant collector.[2] The Latin specific epithet of anomala is derived from Greek word anomalus meaning anomalous (deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected).[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Fl. Columb. Vol.1 on page 179 in 1861.[1]

References

"Tammsia H.Karst. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 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.
Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.