Hellmuthia

<i>Hellmuthia</i>

Hellmuthia

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Hellmuthia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cyperaceae.[1] The only species is Hellmuthia membranacea.[2]

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It is native to the Cape Provinces within the South African Republic.[2]

The genus name of Hellmuthia is in honour of Hellmuth Steudel (1816–1886), German doctor in Esslingen and son of Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (a German physician and an authority on grasses).[3] The Latin specific epithet of membranaceus means membranous.[4] Hellmuthia membranacea was first described and published in Bot. Not. Vol.129 on page 66 in 1976.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Hellmuthia Steud. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Hellmuthia membranacea (Thunb.) R.W.Haines & Lye | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  3. [3]
    Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
  4. [4]
    Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199102051.
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