Oreoschimperella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Tribe: Pyramidoptereae
Genus: Oreoschimperella
Rauschert[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Schimperella H.Wolff

Oreoschimperella is a genus of flowering plants in the umbellifer family Apiaceae, native to Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Arabian Peninsula. Poorly studied, they are closely related to Trachyspermum.[2]

The genus name of Oreoschimperella is in honour of Georg Wilhelm Schimper (1804–1878), a German botanist and naturalist.[3]

Species

Currently accepted species include:

  • Oreoschimperella aberdarensis (C.Norman) Rauschert
  • Oreoschimperella arabiae-felicis (C.C.Towns.) C.C.Towns.
  • Oreoschimperella verrucosa (J.Gay ex A.Rich.) Rauschert

References

  1. Taxon 31: 556 (1982)
  2. Kadereit, Joachim W.; Bittrich, Volker (2019). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants. Eudicots - Apiales, Gentianales (except Rubiaceae). Vol. XV. p. 161. ISBN 9783319936048.
  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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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