Oberholzeria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Oberholzeria etendekaensis which is endemic to Namibia.[2] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, though its tribal affiliation is unclear.
Oberholzeria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Clade: | Genistoids |
Clade: | Core genistoids |
Genus: | Oberholzeria Swanepoel, M.M.le Roux, M.F.Wojc. & A.E.van Wyk (2015) |
Species: | O. etendekaensis
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Binomial name | |
Oberholzeria etendekaensis Swanepoel, M.M.le Roux, M.F.Wojc. & A.E.van Wyk (2015)
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The genus and species were circumscribed by Wessel Swanepoel, Margaretha Marianne le Roux, Martin F. Wojciechowski and Abraham Erasmus Van Wyk in PLoS ONE 10(3): e122080 (11+12) in 2015.[2]
The genus name of Oberholzeria is in honour of Johanna Allettha Oberholzer (b.1965), she is the wife of South African botanist and genus author Wessel Swanepoel.[3]
References
edit- ^ Swanepoel W, le Roux MM, Wojciechowski MF, van Wyk AE (2015). "Oberholzeria (Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae), a New Monotypic Legume Genus from Namibia". PLOS ONE. 10 (3): e0122080. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1022080S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122080. PMC 4376691. PMID 25816251.
- ^ a b "Oberholzeria Swanepoel, M.M.le Roux, M.F.Wojc. & A.E.van Wyk | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.