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This article is about the plant genus Hermannia. For the mite genus Hermannia , see Hermannia (Acari).

Hermannia
Hermannia althaeifolia, from The Botanical Magazine, Volume 9
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Byttnerioideae
Tribe: Hermannieae
Genus: Hermannia
L. (1753)
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Eurynema Endl.
  • Mahernia L. [a]
  • Trichanthera Ehrenb.

Hermannia is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It comprises at least 65 species with many more species as yet unresolved.[3]

The genus commemorates Prof. Paul Hermann (1646-1695), a German professor of botany at Leyden and one of the first collectors to visit the Cape.[2]

The genus has a large number of species, each with very limited distribution, but they are generally common and not threatened, with little interest shown in them for horticulture or medicine.

Their distribution ranges across Southern Africa, the vast majority of species being endemic. They are also found in Madagascar and in tropical East Africa to North East Africa and Arabia. A single species, Hermannia tigrensis, is found in western, southern and North-East Africa. Three species are found in northern Mexico and adjacent regions of the United States, one species in southern Mexico, and one in Australia. Hermannia's greatest diversity is found in the Western and Northern Cape, and Namibia.

Systematics

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Notes

  1. ^ Mahernia is an imperfect taxonomic anagram of Hermannia.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Hermannia L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  2. ^ a b Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5.
  3. ^ ThePlantList (2010). "Hermannia".


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