Viola angustifolia
Viola angustifolia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Violaceae |
Genus: | Viola |
Species: | V. wikipedia
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Binomial name | |
Viola wikipedia Watson & Flores, 2019
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Viola wikipedia is a species of flowering plant, in the genus Viola, and was named in 2019 after the online encyclopedia Wikipedia[1] by the husband-and-wife[2] team of botanists John M. Watson and Ana R. (Anita) Flores.[1]
Watson wrote:[1]
one [resource] is particularly outstanding in that we consult it constantly for information on a wide variety of subjects related to our work – Wikipedia, as cited herein for example. The best token return we can think of is to name a plant accordingly, so it therefore gives us pleasure to record our gratitude via the replacement epithet of this species, as a noun in apposition.
The species is endemic to the Santiago region of Chile.[1] It is known only from a specimen collected in January 1855,[1][3] which was described by Rodolfo Amando Philippi in 1857 with the illegitimate homonym of Viola angustifolia.[1][3]
It is closely related to V. acanthophylla, V. bustillosia, and V. cheeseana, the latter being newly described in the same paper.[1] It is differentiated from these other species by having "Leaf margin shallowly long-serrate. Peduncle clearly shorter than leaves."[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Watson, J.M. (2019). "Lest we forget. A new identity and status for a Viola of section Andinium W. Becker; named for an old and treasured friend and companion. Plus another..." (PDF). International Rock Gardener (117): 47–.
- ^ "Contributors" (PDF). Rock Garden Quarterly. Winter 2012–2013.
John Watson lives in Chile with his wife and working partner, Anita Flores (Ana R. Flores for formal publications).
- ^ a b Philippi, R.A. (1857) Plantarum novarum chilensium. Centuria prima. Linnaea 28: 612.