Surreya Explained

Surreya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.^[1] It is also in the Polycnemoideae subfamily.^[2]

It is native to Australia.

The genus name of Surreya is in honour of Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs (1946–2009), an Australian botanist and botanical garden taxonomist in Sydney.^[3] It was first described and published in Taxon Vol.62 on page 109 in 2013.^[1]

Known species:

• Surreya diandra
• Surreya mesembryanthema

Notes and References

1. Web site: Surreya R.Masson & G.Kadereit Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 16 March 2021 . en.
2. Rüdiger Masson & Gudrun Kadereit (2013): Phylogeny of Polycnemoideae (Amaranthaceae): Implications for biogeography, character evolution and taxonomy. Taxon 62 (1): 100-111. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2013/00000062/00000001/art00009
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 . 187926901 . 1 January 2021.