Pennellianthus

Pennellianthus
Penstemon frutescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Plantaginaceae
Genus:	Pennellianthus Crosswh.
Synonyms[1]
Chelone frutescens Steud. Digitalis ambigua Willd. ex Ledeb. Digitalis dasyantha Pall. ex Lamb. Leiostemon frutescens (Lamb.) Raf. ex Straw Penstemon frutescens Lamb.

Pennellianthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Pennellianthus frutescens (Lamb.) Crosswh. The genus is within the Tribe Cheloneae along with Penstemon, from which Pennellianthus was separated from.[3]

Its native range is Russian Far East (within the regions of Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, the Kuril Islands, Magadan, Sakhalin) and also Japan.[1]

The genus name of Pennellia is in honour of Francis W. Pennell (1886–1952), an American botanist best known for his studies of the Scrophulariaceae.[4] The Latin specific epithet of frutescens means shrubby (referring to the habit of the plant).[5] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Amer. Midl. Naturalist Vol.83 on page 362 in 1970.[3][1]

References

1. "Pennellianthus frutescens (Lamb.) Crosswh". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. "Pennellianthus Crosswh. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
3. Crosswhite, Frank S.; Kawano, Shoichi (1970). "Pennellianthus (Scrophulariaceae)--A New Genus of Japan and USSR". The American Midland Naturalist. 83 (2): 358–367. doi:10.2307/2423949. JSTOR 2423949. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
4. 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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
5. Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199102051.