Volkensinia
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| The flower of Volkensinia or Dasysphaera prostrata, an arid-adapted shrub that grows on saline or alkaline soils in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaranthoideae |
| Genus: | Volkensinia Schinz, 1912 |
| Species: | V. prostrata
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| Binomial name | |
| Volkensinia prostrata | |
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Volkensinia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It only contains one known species; Volkensinia prostrata.[2] It is in the subfamily Amaranthoideae.
Its native range is north eastern and eastern Tropical Africa, it is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Tanzania.[1][2]
The genus name of Volkensinia is in honour of Georg Volkens (1855–1917), a German botanist born in Berlin.[3] The Latin specific epithet of prostrata means on the ground as derived from prostrate.[4] Both the genus and the sole species were first described and published in Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich Vol.57 on page 535 in 1912.[1][2]
The species has been variably assigned either to the genus Dasysphaera or to Volkensinia.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b c "Volkensinia prostrata (Volkens ex Gilg) Schinz". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ a b c "Volkensinia Schinz | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
- ^ Townsend, C.C., 1979. The Genera Dasysphaera and Volkensinia: Notes on Amaranthaceae: IV. Kew Bulletin, pp.417-419.
- ^ Ghazanfar, S.A., Beentje, H.J. (2010). Sabkha Regions of Tropical East Africa. In: Öztürk, M., Böer, B., Barth, HJ., Clüsener-Godt, M., Khan, M., Breckle, SW. (eds) Sabkha Ecosystems. Tasks for Vegetation Science, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9673-9_1