Ouret leucura

Ouret leucura

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Ouret
Species: Ouret leucura

Name

Ouret leucura (Moq.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 544 (1891) (as Uretia)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Aerva leucura Moq., in Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 302 (1849)
    • Syntype: South Africa. Griqualand West: “at Griquatown [Griekwastad] in Leeuwenkuil Valley”, 14 Dec 1811, W.J. Burchell #1892. K K000243712; Isotypes: K000243713, P00487014 (fragment), PRE0385094-0.
• Homotypic
  • Illecebrum leucurum hort. Berol. ex Moq. in Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 302 (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
  • Aerva burchellii Moq., Prodr. 13(2): 302 (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
• Heterotypic
  • Aerva ambigua Moq. in Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 302 (1849)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Africa West-Central Tropical Africa Burundi, Rwanda, Zaïre East Tropical Africa Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda South Tropical Africa Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe Southern Africa Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Swaziland References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Kuntze, O. 1891. Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Pars II. Pp. 377–1011. Arthur Felix, Leipzig [etc.]. BHL Reference page. : 544
• Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Amarantaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 231–424. Masson, Paris. BHL. Reference page. : 302

Additional references

• Hammer, T.A., Zhong, X., Colas des Francs-Small, C., Nevill, P.G., Small, I.D. & Thiele, K.R. 2019. Resolving intergeneric relationships in the aervoid clade and the backbone of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence from whole plastid genomes and morphology. Taxon 68(2): 297–314. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12054 Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Aerva leucura in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 06. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2019. Aerva leucura. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 06. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Uretia leucura. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 06 2019.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Aerva leucura. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 Aug. 2019.

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