Seidlitzia
Seidlitzia rosmarinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Salsoloideae
Genus: Seidlitzia
Bunge ex Boiss.

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

Its native range is from Egypt, Central Asia (within Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Sinai, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan,) to Western Himalayas and Pakistan, India and the Arabian Peninsula (within the Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Socotra).[1]

The genus name of Seidlitzia is in honour of Nikolai Karl Samuel von Seidlitz (1831–1907), a Baltic German botanist and statistician.[3] It was first described and published in Fl. Orient. Vol.4 on page 950 in 1879.[1]

Known species

Accepted species by Kew include:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Seidlitzia Bunge ex Boiss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Hayrapetyan, Alla; Sonyan, Hasmik (October 2021). "Palynomorphological Peculiarities of Some Representatives of the Subfamily Salsoloideae (Chenopodiaceae) in South Transcaucasia. I. Seidlitzia Bunge и Noaea Moq. [in Russian with English summary]". Biological Journal of Armenia. 2 (73): 47–51.
  3. ↑ 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.
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