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(Redirected from Leidesia procumbens) Genus of flowering plants in the spurge family Euphorbiacea

Leidesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Acalypheae
Subtribe: Mercurialinae
Genus: Leidesia
Mull. Arg.
Species: L. procumbens
Binomial name
Leidesia procumbens
(L.) Prain
Synonyms
  • Mercurialis procumbens L.
  • Paradenocline procumbens (L.) Müll.Arg.
  • Adenocline procumbens (L.) Druce
  • Croton ricinocarpus L.
  • Croton ricinokarpos Houtt.
  • Mercurialis androgyna Steud.
  • Acalypha obtusa Thunb.
  • Mercurialis tricocca Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Krauss
  • Mercurialis capensis (L.f.) Spreng. ex Sond.
  • Leidesia capensis (L.f.) Müll.Arg.
  • Leidesia obtusa (Thunb.) Müll.Arg.
  • Leidesia sonderiana Müll.Arg.
  • Leidesia procumbens var. obtusa (Thunb.) Pax & K.Hoffm.

Leidesia is a monotypic plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1866. The sole species is Leidesia procumbens. The species is widespread in Southern Africa as far north as Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The genus name of Leidesia is in honour of Carl Friedrich Seidel (d. 1898), a German painter and botanist, and/or Jacob Friedrich Seidel (1789–1860), a German gardener, and/or Johann Heinrich Seidel (1744–1815), a German court gardener.

Species formerly included,

moved to Seidelia

References

  1. ^ World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Müller Argoviensis, Johannes (Jean). 1866. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 15(2): 792 in Latin
  3. Tropicos, genus Leidesia
  4. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Leidesia
Leidesia procumbens


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