Harveya (plant) explained
Harveya is a genus of parasitic plants in the family Orobanchaceae. The approximately 29 species included are native to Africa from Eritrea to South Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, the Arabian Peninsula, and Turkmenistan in Central Asia. In South Africa they are commonly known as 'Afrikaans: inkblom', because early settlers used the flowers to make ink, and this is the source of the English common-names for the genus of ink flower or ink plant.[1] [2]
The genus was named after William Henry Harvey, thus achieving one of his childhood ambitions. Discussing his vocational prospects as a youth, Harvey wrote that he was "neither fit to be a doctor nor a lawyer, lacking courage for the one, and face for the other, and application for both.... All I have a taste for is natural history, and that might possibly lead in days to come to a genus called Harveya, and the letters F.L.S. after my name, and with that I shall be content."[3]
Species
29 species are accepted.
- Harveya alba
- Harveya alectroides
- Harveya andongensis
- Harveya bodkinii
- Harveya bolusii
- Harveya buchwaldii
- Harveya capensis – South Africa[4]
- Harveya comorensis – Comoros[5]
- Harveya helenae
- Harveya huillensis
- Harveya huttonii – South Africa[6]
- Harveya hyobanchoides
- Harveya kenyensis
- Harveya kiangombensis
- Harveya liebuschiana
- Harveya obtusifolia – Madagascar and Yemen[7] [8]
- Harveya pauciflora – South Africa[9]
- Harveya pumila – South Africa[10]
- Harveya purpurea – South Africa[11]
- Harveya roseoalba
- Harveya scarlatina – South Africa[12]
- Harveya speciosa – South Africa[13]
- Harveya squamosa – South Africa[14]
- Harveya stenosiphon – South Africa[15]
- Harveya tanzanica
- Harveya thonneri
- Harveya versicolor
- Harveya vestita
Notes and References
- http://sterkfonteincountryestates.org.za/flora/harveya-pumila/ Sterkfontein Country Estates - Harveya pumila
- https://www.operationwildflower.org.za/index.php/albums/parasites/harveya-purpurea-thabo-1-7364 Operation Wildflower - Harveya purpurea
- Book: Praeger, Robert Lloyd . Robert Lloyd Praeger . 1913 . . Oliver, Francis Wall . Francis Wall Oliver . . Cambridge University Press.
- https://natureontheedge.com/tag/harveya-capensis/ Nature on the Edge - Harveya capensis
- https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/11629/_HERBAR_BGBM_GERMANY_B_10_0001420.html Europeana Collections - Harveya comorensis
- http://orobanchaceae.blogspot.com/2014/01/surprises-galore-in-eastern-cape.html Orobranchaceae Travel Blog - Surprises Galore in the Eastern Cape
- https://gasy.net/fr/video/clip/4025/madagascar-massif-d-andringitra.html - Gasy sur le Net
- https://www.scribd.com/doc/118493798/Flora-of-Yemen Flora of Yemen
- http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=1072-14 South Africa National Biodiversity Institute - Red List
- http://sterkfonteincountryestates.org.za/flora/harveya-pumila/ Sterkfontein Country Estates - Harveya pumila
- https://casabio.org/taxa/harveya-purpurea CasaBio - Species Harveya purpurea
- https://pondolandcrew.blogspot.com/2016/01/escaping-from-crowded-beaches.html Pondoland Crew Blog - Escaping from the crowded beaches
- https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/harveya.speciosa JSTOR Global Plants - Harveya speciosa
- http://pza.sanbi.org/harveya-squamosa South Africa National Biodiversity Institute - Harvey squamosa
- http://www.africanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=78&id=6609 African Plants - A Photo Guide
