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Muehlbergella

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Muehlbergella
Muehlbergella oweriniana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Subfamily: Campanuloideae
Genus: Muehlbergella
Feer (1890)
Species:
M. oweriniana
Binomial name
Muehlbergella oweriniana
(Rupr.) Feer (1890)
Synonyms[2]
  • Edraianthus owerinianus (Rupr.) Boiss. (1875)
  • Hedranthus owerinianus Rupr. (1867)

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

Distribution

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The species is endemic to an area of ~40 km2 in Dagestan, North Caucasus, where it grows between cracks and calcareous rocky ground.[3]

Taxonomy

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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.[4]

The genus name of Muehlbergella is in honour of Friedrich Mühlberg (1840–1915), a Swiss geologist.[5] 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.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Murtazaliev, R. (2014). "Owerin's Muchlenbergella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Muehlbergella oweriana (Rupr.)Feer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Catalogue of Life - 2010 Annual Checklist :: Species details". www.catalogueoflife.org.
  4. ^ "Muehlbergella Feer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.