Hanburia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily: Cucurbitoideae
Tribe: Sicyoeae
Genus: Hanburia
Seem.
Synonyms
  • Elateriopsis Ernst
  • Nietoa W.Schaffn.

Hanburia is a genus of plants in the tribe Sicyoeae of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae.[1][2] Its native range is from Mexico to Venezuela and Peru. It is found in the countries of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panamá, Peru and Venezuela.[1]

Description

Mainly perennial climbing and shrubby herbaceous plants. The leaves are alternate (at different levels along a stem) and simple, with lobed, stalked margins, with simple or bi- to trifid (split in 3) tendrils. The flowers are actinomorphic (regular or radially symmetrical) and unisexual (monecium), are grouped in axillary racemes for males, solitary and axillary for females. They consist of a campanulate calyx with 5 lobes, a corolla with 5 petals united at the base. The male flowers have 3 stamens with coherent filaments or connate in a central column. The female flowers have an inferior and trilocular (3 spaced) ovary. The fruits (seed capsules) are ovoid (shaped) and similar to prickly berries.[3]

Taxonomy

The genus name of Hanburia is in honour of Daniel Hanbury (1825–1875), a British botanist and pharmacologist.[4] It was first descried and published in Bonplandia (Hannover) Vol.6 on page 293 in 1858.[1]

Known species

According to Kew;[1]

The type species is Hanburia mexicana, from Mexico.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Hanburia Seem. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  2. ^ Stafford, Peter J.; Sutton, David A. (1994). "Pollen morphology of the Cyclantherinae C. Jeffr. (tribe Sicyeae Schrad., Cucurbitaceae) and its taxonomic significance". Acta Botanica Gallica. 141 (2): 171–182.
  3. ^ a b "Genre des Hanburia". Plantes et botanique (in French). 27 May 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  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.
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