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Requienia (plant)

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Genus of legumes This article is about the legume genus. For the mollusc genus, see Requienia (bivalve).

Requienia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Millettieae
Genus: Requienia
DC. (1825)
Species

Requienia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes two species of herbs native to Botswana, Caprivi Strip, Namibia, and Zambia, and the Cape Provinces, Free State and Northern Provinces of South Africa. They grow on sand in dry tropical wooded grassland, shrubland, and bushland in the southern Zambezian region and the Kalahari and Highveld regions.

The genus name of Requienia is in honour of Esprit Requien (1788–1851), who was a French naturalist, who made contributions in the fields of conchology, palaeontology and especially botany.

The genus was circumscribed by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Mem. Fam. Legum. on page 224 in 1825.

References

  1. ^ "Requienia DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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Requienia

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