Mannagettaea Explained

Mannagettaea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orobanchaceae.^[1] It is a holoparasitic plant.^[2]

It is native to southern Siberia (within Irkutsk Oblast and Tuva) and also northern China (in Qinghai).

The genus name of Mannagettaea is in honour of Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856–1931), a prominent Austrian botanist.^[3] It was first described and published in Acta Horti Gothob. Vol.8 on page 135 in 1933.^[1]

Known species, according to Kew;

• Mannagettaea hummelii
• Mannagettaea labiata

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mannagettaea Harry Sm. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 27 May 2021 . en.
2. Fu . Weirui . Liu . Xiaoqing . Zhang . Naixin . Song . Zhiping . Zhang . Wenju . Yang . Ji . Wang . Yuguo . Testing the Hypothesis of Multiple Origins of Holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae: Phylogenetic Evidence from the Last Two Unplaced Holoparasitic Genera, Gleadovia and Phacellanthus . Front. Plant Sci. . 15 August 2017 . 8 . 1380. 10.3389/fpls.2017.01380 . 28861092 . 5559707 . free .
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.