Verdesmum Explained

Verdesmum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. It only contains one known species, Verdesmum hentyi.[1] It is also within the tribe Desmodieae, with another species Verdesmum menglaense but this was transferred to the Hylodesmum genus in 2019.[2]

It is native to Borneo and Papua New Guinea.

This genus was considered to be fairly similar to Hylodesmum, but differed in having funnel-shaped terminal stigma, bracteolate (possessing bracteoles (or bractlets)) calyces (collective term for the sepals of one flower), linear shaped seed pods, very narrow obovate-elliptic shaped articles (fruit with constrictions between the seeds) and stipes longer than fruiting pedicels (stalks of a flower).[2]

The genus name of Verdesmum is in honour of Bernard Verdcourt (1925–2011), an English biologist and taxonomist.[3] The Latin specific epithet of hentyi refers to plant collector and botanist E.E. Henty, (1915–2002).[4] [5] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in J. Jap. Bot. Vol.87 on page 301-303 in 2012.[1] [6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Verdesmum H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 14 March 2021 . en.
  2. Song . Zhu-Qiu . Yao . Gang . Pan . Bo . Li . Jian-Wu . Huang . Xiang-Xu . Tan . Yun-Hong . Xu . Dong-Xian . Return Verdesmum menglaense to the genus Hylodesmum (Fabaceae) based on morphological and molecular evidence . PhytoKeys . 28 June 2019 . 126 . 1–12. 10.3897/phytokeys.126.34599 . free . 31303811 . 6611757 .
  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.
  4. Web site: Henty, E.E. International Plant Names Index . www.ipni.org . 4 January 2022.
  5. Henty, Edward Ellis. CHAH Biographical notes.https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/henty-ted.html
  6. Ohashi H, Ohashi K . 2012 . Verdesmum, a new genus of Leguminosae: tribe Desmodieae . Journal of Japanese Botany . 87 . 5 . 299–306 .

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Verdesmum".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.