Verdesmum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Genus: | Verdesmum H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi |
Species: | V. hentyi
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Binomial name | |
Verdesmum hentyi (Verdc.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi
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Verdesmum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. It only contains one known species, Verdesmum hentyi.[1] It is also within the tribe Desmodieae, with another species Verdesmum menglaense but this was transferred to the Hylodesmum genus in 2019.[2]
It is native to Borneo and Papua New Guinea.[1]
This genus was considered to be fairly similar to Hylodesmum H. Ohashi & R. R. Mill, but differed in having funnel-shaped terminal stigma, bracteolate (possessing bracteoles (or bractlets)) calyces (collective term for the sepals of one flower), linear shaped seed pods, very narrow obovate-elliptic shaped articles (fruit with constrictions between the seeds) and stipes longer than fruiting pedicels (stalks of a flower).[2]
The genus name of Verdesmum is in honour of Bernard Verdcourt (1925–2011), an English biologist and taxonomist.[3] The Latin specific epithet of hentyi refers to plant collector and botanist E.E. Henty, (1915–2002).[4][5] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in J. Jap. Bot. Vol.87 on page 301-303 in 2012.[1][6]