Hartliella Explained

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

Its native range is southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

General description

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

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.

Known species, according to Kew:

• Hartliella bampsii
• Hartliella capitata
• Hartliella cupricola
• Hartliella suffruticosa

Other sources

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hartliella Eb.Fisch. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 26 May 2021 . en.
2. Fischer . Eberhard . Schäferhoff . Bastian . Müller . Kai F . The phylogeny of Linderniaceae – The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia . Willdenowia . December 2013 . 43 . 2 . 209–238. 10.3372/wi.43.43201 .
3. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 1 January 2021.