Thurya

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Caryophyllaceae
Tribus: Alsineae
Genus: Thurya
Species: T. capitata
Name

Thurya Boiss. & Balansa, Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 5: 63. (1856)

monotypic taxon

References

Boissier, P.E. 1856. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum nonnullis Europaeis Boreali-Africanisque additis. ser. 2, no. 5. 118 pp., Lipsiae [Leipzig]: B. Herrmann. MDZ Biblioteca Digital Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2017. Thurya. 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 June 5. 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. Thurya. Published online. Accessed: June 5 2017.
Tropicos.org 2017. Thurya. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 5 June 2017.

Thurya is a monotypic genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Thurya capitata Boiss. & Balansa[1]

It is native to Turkey.[1]

The genus name of Thurya is in honour of Jean Marc Antoine Thury (1822–1905), a Swiss naturalist and professor of botany at the University of Geneva.[2] The Latin specific epithet of capitata means having dense-headed growth and is derived from capitatus.[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient., series.2, Vol.5 on pages 63-64 in 1856.[1]
References

"Thurya Boiss. & Balansa | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 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.
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