Balbisia

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Balbisia

Genus of flowering plants

Balbisia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Francoaceae.[1] It is also in the Vivianiaceae subfamily.[2]

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The genus is distributed across is Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru in southern South America.[1][2]

Known species

As accepted by Kew;

  • Balbisia aphanifolia (Griseb.) Hunz. & Ariza
  • Balbisia calycina (Griseb.) Hunz. & Ariza
  • Balbisia gracilis (Meyen) Hunz. & Ariza
  • Balbisia integrifolia R.Knuth
  • Balbisia meyeniana Klotzsch
  • Balbisia microphylla (Phil.) Reiche
  • Balbisia miniata (I.M.Johnst.) Descole, O'Donell & Lourteig
  • Balbisia peduncularis (Lindl.) D.Don
  • Balbisia stitchkinii Ricardi
  • Balbisia verticillata Cav.

The genus name of Balbisia is in honour of Giovanni Battista Balbis (1772–1840), an Italian botanist and politician who worked in Italy and France..[3] It was first described and published in Anales Ci. Nat. Vol.7 on page 62 in 1804.[1]

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Balbisia Cav. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. [2]
    Weigend, M. (2011). "The genus Balbisia (Vivianiaceae, Geraniales) in Peru, Bolivia and northern Chile". Phytotaxa. 22: 47. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.22.1.4.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    "Genus Balbisia Cav". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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