Schlechterella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Apocynaceae |
Subfamily: | Periplocoideae |
Genus: |
Schlechterella K.Schum. [1] |
Synonyms | |
{{species list Pleurostelma |Schltr., J. Bot. 33: 303 (1895), nom. illeg. Triodoglossum |Bullock, Hooker's Icon. Pl. 36: t. 3584 (1962) }} |
Schlechterella is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae (the dogbane family). [1] It is native to Africa, found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. [2]
As of October 2018 [update], the genus contained two species: [3]
The genus was circumscribed by Karl Moritz Schumann in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Gesamtregister: on page 462 in 1899. [2]
The genus name of Schlechterella is in honour of Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872–1925), who was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. [4]