Hartliella

Hartliella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Linderniaceae
Genus:	Hartliella; Eb.Fisch.

Hartliella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Linderniaceae.^[1]

Its native range is southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[1]

General description

Perennial plants with large sub-terraneous woody rhizomes growing on heavy metal soils. Leaves are largely ovoid, leathery and have a somewhat shining appearance. The lower lip of corolla (petals of the flower) is lacking yellow club-shaped hairs with pluricellular (many cells) base. The filament (stalk) of abaxial (facing away) stamens only weakly curved with a small basal knee-like append-age present or absent.^[2]

Taxonomy

The genus name of Hartliella is in honour of Dimitri Hartl (1926–2015), a German botanist, professor at the University of Mainz and worked on Scrophulariaceae family.^[3] It was first described and published in Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt Vol.81 on page 204 in 1992.^[1]

Known species, according to Kew:^[1]

Hartliella bampsii (Eb.Fisch.) Eb.Fisch.
Hartliella capitata (Eb.Fisch.) Eb.Fisch.
Hartliella cupricola Eb.Fisch.
Hartliella suffruticosa (Lisowski & Mielcarek) Eb.Fisch.

References

^ a b c d "Hartliella Eb.Fisch. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^ Fischer, Eberhard; Schäferhoff, Bastian; Müller, Kai F (December 2013). "The phylogeny of Linderniaceae – The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia". Willdenowia. 43 (2): 209–238.
^ 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.

Other sources

Énum. Pl. Fleurs Afr. Trop. 4: 431 (1997)

[POWO-1] "Hartliella Eb.Fisch. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.

[2] Fischer, Eberhard; Schäferhoff, Bastian; Müller, Kai F (December 2013). "The phylogeny of Linderniaceae – The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia". Willdenowia. 43 (2): 209–238.

[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.