Verdesmum

Verdesmum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Verdesmum
H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi
Species:
V. hentyi
Binomial name
Verdesmum hentyi
(Verdc.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi
Synonyms
  • Desmodium hentyi Verdc.
  • Hanslia hentyi (Verdc.) H.Ohashi

Verdesmum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. It only contains one known species, Verdesmum hentyi.[1] It is also within the tribe Desmodieae, with another species Verdesmum menglaense but this was transferred to the Hylodesmum genus in 2019.[2]

It is native to Borneo and Papua New Guinea.[1]

This genus was considered to be fairly similar to Hylodesmum H. Ohashi & R. R. Mill, but differed in having funnel-shaped terminal stigma, bracteolate (possessing bracteoles (or bractlets)) calyces (collective term for the sepals of one flower), linear shaped seed pods, very narrow obovate-elliptic shaped articles (fruit with constrictions between the seeds) and stipes longer than fruiting pedicels (stalks of a flower).[2]

The genus name of Verdesmum is in honour of Bernard Verdcourt (1925–2011), an English biologist and taxonomist.[3] The Latin specific epithet of hentyi refers to plant collector and botanist E.E. Henty, (1915–2002).[4][5] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in J. Jap. Bot. Vol.87 on page 301-303 in 2012.[1][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Verdesmum H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b Song, Zhu-Qiu; Yao, Gang; Pan, Bo; Li, Jian-Wu; Huang, Xiang-Xu; Tan, Yun-Hong; Xu, Dong-Xian (28 June 2019). "Return Verdesmum menglaense to the genus Hylodesmum (Fabaceae) based on morphological and molecular evidence". PhytoKeys (126): 1–12. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.126.34599. PMC 6611757. PMID 31303811.
  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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Henty, E.E. | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  5. ^ Henty, Edward Ellis. CHAH Biographical notes.[1]
  6. ^ Ohashi H, Ohashi K (2012). "Verdesmum, a new genus of Leguminosae: tribe Desmodieae" (PDF). Journal of Japanese Botany. 87 (5): 299–306. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-02-07. Retrieved 2022-01-05.