Rungia
Rungia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Acanthaceae |
Genus: | Rungia Nees |
Rungia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.[1]
Its native range is Tropical Africa (within Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaïre), southern Arabian Peninsula (within Oman and Yemen), Tropical and Subtropical Asia (within the Andaman Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Java, Laccadive Islands, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam and West Himalaya ).[1]
The genus name of Rungia is in honour of Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1794–1867), a German analytical chemist.[2] It was first described and published in N.Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. Vol.3 on page 77 in 1832.[1]
Known species[]
According to Kew:[1]
- (J.B.Imlay) B.Hansen
- Bedd.
- H.S.Lo
- C.B.Clarke
- D.Fang & H.S.Lo
- Valeton
- C.B.Clarke
- (C.B.Clarke) B.Hansen
- Lindau
- Champl.
- Bremek.
- Benth.
- (Benoist) B.Hansen
- C.B.Clarke
- T.Anderson
- D.V.Hai, Y.F.Deng & Joongku Lee
- H.S.Lo
- S.Moore
- J.B.Imlay
- Nees
- (Benoist) B.Hansen
- Dalzell & A.Gibson
- Hua
- Benoist
- Z.L.Lin & Y.F.Deng
- T.Anderson
- H.S.Lo & D.Fang
- Heine
- Bremek.
- C.B.Clarke
- Benoist
- Bremek.
- T.Anderson
- D.V.Hai, Y.F.Deng & Joongku Lee
- S.Moore
- C.B.Clarke
- Nees
- C.B.Clarke
- Benoist
- Nees
- Nees
- D.Fang & H.S.Lo
- Craib
- T.Anderson
- Merr.
- H.S.Lo
- C.B.Clarke
- (Benoist) B.Hansen
- B.Hansen
- D.Fang & H.S.Lo
- (J.B.Imlay) B.Hansen
- (Lindau) C.B.Clarke
- (L.) Nees
- C.B.Clarke
- Benoist
- H.S.Lo
- Bremek.
- Nees
- D.Fang & H.S.Lo
- (Ridl.) B.Hansen
- (L.) Nees
- Craib
- (Kuntze) Backer
- Valeton
- Bremek.
- Mildbr.
- (C.B.Clarke) B.Hansen
- Hochr.
- Z.L.Lin & Y.F.Deng
- T.Anderson ex C.B.Clarke
- Bremek.
- C.B.Clarke
- (J.B.Imlay) B.Hansen
- Miq.
- T.Yamaz.
- J.B.Imlay
- Benoist
- Bremek.
- (Ridl.) B.Hansen
- Nees
- H.S.Lo
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Rungia Nees | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ 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.
- Acanthaceae
- Acanthaceae genera
- Plants described in 1832
- Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
- Flora of Ethiopia
- Flora of Sudan
- Flora of East Tropical Africa
- Flora of Angola
- Flora of Oman
- Flora of Yemen
- Flora of South-Central China
- Flora of Southeast China
- Flora of the Indian subcontinent
- Flora of Indo-China
- Flora of Malesia
- Flora of New Guinea