Froriepia is a genus of flowering plants in the umbellifer family Apiaceae. It contains a sincle species, Froriepa subpinnata, a biennial native to the Caucasus region, including southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and northern Iran.[3][4]

Froriepia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Froriepia
K.Koch (1842)[1]
Species:
F. subpinnata
Binomial name
Froriepia subpinnata
(Ledeb.) Baill. (1879)
Synonyms[2]
  • Bupleurum subpinnatum Ledeb. (1831)
  • Froriepia nuda K.Koch (1842)

Froriepa subpinnata prefers to live in scrubby areas, in meadows, and on forest edges.[3]

The genus name of Froriepia is in honour of Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep (1779–1847), a German doctor, professor of medicine and anatomy in Jena and Halle.[5] It was first described and published in Linnaea Vol.16 on page 362 in 1842.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Linnaea 16: 362 (1842)
  2. ^ "Froriepia subpinnata (Ledeb.) Baill. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b Kadereit, Joachim W.; Bittrich, Volker (2019). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants. Eudicots - Apiales, Gentianales (except Rubiaceae). Vol. XV. Springer. p. 131. ISBN 9783319936048.
  4. ^ a b "Froriepia K.Koch | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  5. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.