Muehlbergella

<i>Muehlbergella</i>

Muehlbergella

Species of flowering plant

Muehlbergella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae. It contains a single species, Muehlbergella oweriniana. It is critically endangered

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Distribution

The species is endemic to an area of ~40 km2 in Dagestan, North Caucasus, where it grows between cracks and calcareous rocky ground.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus and species were both described by Heinrich Feer and published in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie Vol.12 (Issue 5) on pages 615–616 in 1890.[3]

The genus name of Muehlbergella is in honour of Friedrich Mühlberg (1840–1915), a Swiss geologist.[4] The Latin specific epithet of oweriniana refers to the original collector, Alexander Pavlovic Owerin, a Russian military topographer, florist, and botanical collector. Owerin had collected plants from the mountains of Dagestan (1860–61) and other places in the Caucasus.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Murtazaliev, R. (2014). "Owerin's Muchlenbergella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Catalogue of Life - 2010 Annual Checklist :: Species details". www.catalogueoflife.org.
  3. [3]
    "Muehlbergella Feer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  4. [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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. [5]
    Eddie, Bill (2018). "What's in a Name? The Introduction of Muehlbergella oweriniana to Cultivation and the Recognition of Monotypic Genera". The Rock Garden. 140: 62–65.


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