Horaninovia

Horaninovia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.[1] It also belongs to the tribe Salsoleae as well as in the subfamily Salsoloideae.[2]

Horaninovia
Horaninovia anomala named as Salsola anomala in Eichwald
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Horaninovia
Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

Its native range is from Iran to Xinjiang (in China). It is found in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Xinjiang.[1]

The genus name of Horaninovia is in honour of Pavel Gorianinov (1796–1866), a Russian botanist with an interest on fungus and ferns and was a professor at the medical academy in Saint Petersburg,[3] and it was first described and published in Enum. Pl. Nov. Vol.1 on page 10 in 1841.[1]

Known species:[1]

  • Horaninovia anomala (C.A.Mey.) Moq.
  • Horaninovia capitata Sukhor.
  • Horaninovia excellens (Iljin) Iljin
  • Horaninovia minor Schrenk
  • Horaninovia platyptera Charif & Aellen
  • Horaninovia pungens (Gilli) Botsch.
  • Horaninovia ulicina Fisch. & C.A.Mey

Horaninovia ulicina is the type species.[4]

References

  1. "Arthrophytum Schrenk | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  2. Schüssler, Christina; Freitag, Helmut; Koteyeva, Nuria; Schmidt, Denise; Edwards, Gerald; Voznesenskaya, Elena; Kadereit, Gudrun (1 January 2017). "Molecular phylogeny and forms of photosynthesis in tribe Salsoleae (Chenopodiaceae)". Journal of Experimental Botany. 68 (2): 207–223.
  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. Rudolf Mansfeld Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops, 2001, p. 260, at Google Books
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