Abronia ameliae explained

Abronia ameliae, commonly known as Amelia's sand verbena or heart's delight, is a species of flowering plant in the Four O'clock family, Nyctaginaceae, that is endemic to southern Texas in the United States. It inhabits grasslands in the deep sands of the Holocene sand sheet,[1] which is part of the Tamaulipan mezquital.[2] This species was named for Amelia Anderson Lundell, wife of Cyrus Longworth Lundell.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Abronia ameliae Lundell . The Nature Conservancy in Texas . The Nature Conservancy . 2009-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081104213630/http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/texas/files/g3taxaabstracts720041.pdf . 2008-11-04 . dead .
  2. Web site: Amelia's sand-verbena (Abronia ameliae) . Bill . Carr . Rare Plants of the Tamaulipan Thornscrub Ecoregion of Texas . Association of Biodiversity Information - Southwest . August 2005 . 2009-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101118045646/http://www.abisw.org/tt/plants/abrame.htm . 2010-11-18 . dead .
  3. Wrightia 1(1): 54–55. 1945. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/764029#page/72/mode/1up

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