Rudgea
| Rudgea | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Rudgea skutchii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Rubioideae |
| Tribe: | Psychotrieae |
| Genus: | Rudgea Salisb.[1] |
Rudgea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.
Species include:
- Rudgea crassifolia, Zappi & E.Lucas
- Rudgea microcarpa, (Ruiz & Pav.) Standl.
- Rudgea obesiflora, Standl.
- Rudgea stenophylla, (Krause) Standl.
The name was given by Richard Anthony Salisbury to honour Edward Rudge in 1806.[2]
References
- ↑ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Search Results" (HTML). International Plant Names Index.
- ↑
Woodward, Bernard Barham (1897). "Rudge, Edward". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co. citing: (Trans. of Linn. Soc. viii. 326)
External links
- Rudgea tayloriae (Rubiaceae), an Unusual New Species from the Eastern Slopes of the Venezuelan Andes Gerardo Aymard C., L. J. Dorr and Nidia Cuello Novon Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 315–317
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