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Hartliella

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Hartliella
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Linderniaceae
Genus: Hartliella
Eb.Fisch.

Hartliella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Linderniaceae.[1]

Its native range is southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

General description

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Perennial plants with large sub-terraneous woody rhizomes growing on heavy metal soils. Leaves are largely ovoid, leathery and have a somewhat shining appearance. The lower lip of corolla (petals of the flower) is lacking yellow club-shaped hairs with pluricellular (many cells) base. The filament (stalk) of abaxial (facing away) stamens only weakly curved with a small basal knee-like append-age present or absent.[2]

Taxonomy

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The genus name of Hartliella is in honour of Dimitri Hartl (1926–2015), a German botanist, professor at the University of Mainz and worked on Scrophulariaceae family.[3] It was first described and published in Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt Vol.81 on page 204 in 1992.[1]

Known species, according to Kew:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Hartliella Eb.Fisch. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. ^ Fischer, Eberhard; Schäferhoff, Bastian; Müller, Kai F (December 2013). "The phylogeny of Linderniaceae – The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia". Willdenowia. 43 (2): 209–238. doi:10.3372/wi.43.43201.
  3. ^ 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.

Other sources

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  • Énum. Pl. Fleurs Afr. Trop. 4: 431 (1997)