Huberia (plant)

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Huberia
Huberia consimilis Baumgratz from Lagoa dos Gatos, Pernambuco, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Huberia
DC.
Synonyms
  • Behuria Cham.
  • Benevidesia Saldanha & Cogn.
  • Dolichoura Brade

Huberia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.

Its native range is from Ecuador to Peru, eastern and southern Brazil.

General description

Most are shrubs, the leaves are opposite (arranged), petiolate (has a leaf stalk) and are serrated. It flowers with 3 flowered cymes which have a long stipitate (stalk). The flowers are similar in form to Meriania species, but tetramerous (in four parts). The receptacle (the axis of a flower) is urceolate (shaped like an urn or pitcher) or lageniform (flask-shaped) and narrowed to the neck, sometimes costate alate (ribbed like a wing). The flower has 4 sepals which are broad, and 4 petals which are longer than the calyx and much contorted. It has 8 stamens, which have a dorsal appendage which is less developed. The anthers are incurved and elongated. It has a seed capsule that is 4-valved. The seeds are sometimes imbricate (tiled and overlapping), produced on both sides to an elongated wing. The seeds are also winged and pyramidal (in form).

Taxonomy

The genus name of Huberia is in honour of François Huber (1750–1831) a Swiss entomologist who specialized in honey bees, and also his son Jean Pierre Huber. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was a close friend of Huber and wrote a biographer of him in 1832. The genus was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 167 in 1828.

Known species

According to Kew:

The type species, Huberia semiserrata DC. is listed by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service on 21 March 2005.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Huberia DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  2. ^ John J. Wurdack 138. Melastomataceae , p. 47, at Google Books
  3. ^ M.M. Grandtner and Julien Chevrette Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology (2013), p. 308, at Google Books
  4. ^ D. J. Mabberley The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, 2nd Edt. (1997), p. 348, at Google Books
  5. ^ Henri Baillon The Natural History of Plants, Volume 7 (1904), p. 21-59, at Google Books
  6. ^ 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. ^ De Candolle, A.P. (October 1832). "The life and writings of Francis Huber". Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 14: 283–296 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ George Don A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, Comprising Complete ... (1832), p. 778, at Google Books
  9. ^ a b Baumgratz, Jose Fernando A. (January–March 2000). "Two New Species of Huberia (Melastomataceae: Merianieae) from Brazil". Brittonia. 52 (1): 24–33. Bibcode:2000Britt..52...24B. doi:10.2307/2666491. JSTOR 2666491. S2CID 1261270.
  10. ^ Bochorny, Thuane; Goldenberg, Renato (2019). "A new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from Espírito Santo, Brazil". Brittonia. 71 (4): 408–413. Bibcode:2019Britt..71..408B. doi:10.1007/s12228-019-09568-x. S2CID 255555503.
  11. ^ "Huberia semiserrata DC. GRIN-Global". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 2 October 2021.

Other sources

  • Applequist, W. L. 2014. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 66. Taxon 63:1370. Note: should be treated as earlier homonym of Hubera Chaowasku
  • Baumgratz, J. F. A. 2004. Sinopse de Huberia DC. (Melastomataceae:Merianieae). Revista Brasil. Bot. 27(3):545–561.
  • Chaowasku, T. 2013. (7) Request for a binding decision on whether Huberia DC. (Melastomataceae) and Hubera Chaowasku (Annonaceae) are sufficiently alike to be confused. Taxon 62:412.
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