Vahlia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Vahliaceae
Genus: Vahlia
Species: V. capensis – V. dichotoma – V. digyna – V. geminiflora – V. somalensis
Name

Vahlia Thunb. (1782)

Type species: Vahlia capensis (L.f.) Thunb.

References

Weigend, M., Luebert, F., Gottschling, M., Couvreur, T.L.P., Hilger, H.H. & Miller, J.S. 2014. From capsules to nutlets - phylogenetic relationships in the Boraginales. Cladistics 30(5): 508–518. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12061Open access Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Vahlia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Aug. 29. Reference page.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Vahlia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 02-Feb-2010.
Vahlia – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Vernacular names
中文: 黄漆姑属

Vahlia is a genus of herbs and subshrubs that grow in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. There are at least five species.

The genus is placed alone in family Vahliaceae. This family had previously been placed in the Saxifragales order, and was reassigned to the new order Vahliales in 2016 by the APG IV system.[1]
Species

Vahlia capensis (L. fil.) Thunb.;[2] South Africa (Cape Prov.)
Vahlia dichotoma (J. A. Murr.) Kuntze,[2] Mauritania, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Western Sahara, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, ?Togo, Central African Republic, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Chad, Zimbabwe, India, Sri Lanka
Vahlia digyna (Retz.) Kuntze [2] Egypt (Nile Valley), Pakistan (Baluchistan, Sind, Pakistani Punjab), NW-India, Botswana, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, NE-Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, etc., Madagascar
Vahlia geminiflora (Del.) Bridson [2] Egypt (Nile Valley), Iran (S-Iran), Iraq (SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia), Mali, Niger, N-Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mauritania
Vahlia somalensis Chiov.,[2] Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya

References

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385.

"Genus Vahlia". ITIS/Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 3 May 2019.

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/gentianalesweb.htm#Vahliaceae