Viridivia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Passifloraceae
Subfamilia: Passifloroideae
Tribus : Paropsieae
Genus: Viridivia
Species: V. suberosa
Name

Viridivia J.H.Hemsl. & Verdc., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 36: t. 3555. (1956)

monotypic taxon

References

Hemsley, J.H. & Verdcourt, B. 1956. Hooker's Icones Plantarum; or figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks of new or rare plants 36: t. 3555.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Viridivia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Nov. 10. Reference page.
Hassler, M. Nov.. Viridivia. 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. Nov.. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 10 {{{3}}}. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Viridivia. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 10 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Viridivia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 10 Nov. 2020.

Viridivia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Passifloraceae. It only contain one known species, 'Viridivia suberosa' J.H.Hemsl. & Verdc. [1] It is also in the subfamily Passifloroideae and Tribe Paropsieae.[2][3]

It is native to Zambia and Tanzania.[1] It grows within woodland on rocky outcrops.[4]
Description

It is a small tree that can grow up to 8 m (26 ft) tall. It has older branches with longitudinally fissured cork-like bark. The young branches are spattered with short, stiff golden-yellow or brown hairs. It has bisexual flowers, which appear before leaves grow. The flower are dense racemes at the end of short branches. They have 4 sepals, which are imbricate (overlapping), sericeous silky with dense appressed hairs) on the outside and 3–7-nerved (or veined). It has 4 petals which are smaller than the sepals and 1-nerved. The corona is a short tubular shape, irregularly fimbriate (fringed) and with clavate (club shaped) whitish glands. It has 10-16 stamens, with the filaments (stamen stalks) free and hairy. The anthers are oblong shaped. It has a globose (round-like shaped) ovary which is stipitate (stalked) with 1-locular (or compartment). It has 4–6 styles with fleshy, kidney-shaped stigmas. It has about 50 ovules. The seed capsule is subglobose shaped and stipitate. Inside the capsule, the seeds are ovoid, compressed, included in a cupulate (cup-shaped) aril (seed coating).[4]
Taxonomy

In Zambia, it is commonly known as 'Mulyansefu'.[4]

The genus name of Viridivia is in honour of Percy James Greenway (1897–1980), South African botanist at the agricultural research station and herbarium in Nairobi, Kenya.[5] Note, the Latin for Green is viridis.[6] The New Latin specific epithet of suberosa means cork-like. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. Vol.36 on table 3555 in 1956.[1]
References

"Viridivia J.H.Hemsl. & Verdc. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
De Vos, J. M.; Breteler, F. J. (2009). "A REVISION OF THE AFRICAN GENERA PAROPSIOPSIS AND SMEATHMANNIA (PASSIFLORACEAE – PAROPSIEAE) , INCLUDING A NEW SPECIES OF PAROPSIOPSIS FROM CAMEROON" (PDF). Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 66 (1): 27–49. doi:10.1017/S0960428609005174.
Armen Takhtajan Flowering Plants (2009), p. 228, at Google Books
"Flora of Zambia: Species information: Viridivia suberosa". www.zambiaflora.com. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
"viridis". Wiktionary. 28 December 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2022.