Gisekia africana

Gisekia africana

Gisekia africana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Gisekiaceae
Genus: Gisekia
Species: Gisekia africana

Name

Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze, 1898

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Miltus africana Lour., Fl. Cochinch.: 302 (1790).
• Heterotypic
  • Glinus miltus Raeusch., Nomencl. Bot. Pl. Illustr., ed. 3: 141 (1797), nom. superfl.
  • Glinus mozambicensis Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 2: 467 (1825).
  • Gisekia miltus Fenzl, S.L.Endlicher & E.Fenzl., Nov. Stirp. Dec.: 86 (1839), nom. illeg.
  • Gisekia burchellii Moq., A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 28 (1849).
  • Gisekia pentadecandra E.Mey. ex Moq., A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 28 (1849).
  • Gisekia aspera Klotzsch, W.C.H.Peters, Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6(1): 136 (1861).
  • Gisekia miltus var. pedunculata Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 594 (1871).
  • Gisekia pierrei Gagnep., Notul. Syst. (Paris) 3: 367 (1918).
  • Gisekia africana var. decagyna Hauman, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 19: 444 (1949).
  • Gisekia africana var. pedunculata (Oliv.) Brenan, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 444 (1954).
  • Gisekia africana var. cymosa Adamson, J. S. African Bot. 27: 136 (1961).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Africa Regional: Tropical Africa Angola, Botswana, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Ethiopia, Free State, Hainan, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Somalia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Kuntze, O. 1898. Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Pars III^II. VI+201+576 pp. Arthur Felix, Leipzig [etc.] BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. : 3[3]: 108

Additional references

• Govaerts, R.H.A. 2003. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [unavailable for the public] Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Gisekia africana in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Sep 10. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Gisekia africana in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Sep 10. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2021. Gisekia africana. Published online. Accessed: Sep 10 2021.
• Tropicos.org 2021. Gisekia africana. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 10 Sep 2021.
• Hassler, M. 2021. Gisekia africana. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Sep 10. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Gisekia africana. Accessed: 10 Sep 2021.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Gisekia africana in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Vernacular names

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