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Elekmania is a genus of the tribe Senecioneae and the family Asteraceae. All species are endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.[2]
Taxonomy
The genus was first published by Bertil Nordenstam in Compositae Newslett. vol.44 on page 66 in 2006.[2] Most if not all of its members used to be placed in Senecio.
The genus name of Elekmania is in honour of Erik Leonard Ekman (1883–1931), who was a Swedish botanist and explorer that described the majority of Hispaniola's flora.[3]
Species
It includes 9 accepted species;[2]
- Elekmania barahonensis (Urb.) B.Nord.
- Elekmania buchii (Urb.) B.Nord.
- Elekmania fuertesii (Urb.) B.Nord.
- Elekmania haitiensis (Krug & Urb.) B.Nord.
- Elekmania kuekenthalii (Urb. & Ekman) B.Nord.
- Elekmania marciana (Urb. & Ekman) B.Nord.
- Elekmania picardae (Krug & Urb.) B.Nord.
- Elekmania samanensis (Urb.) B.Nord.
- Elekmania stenodon (Urb.) B.Nord.
References
- ^ "Elekmania". Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 2006-02-20. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
- ^ a b c "Elekmania B.Nord. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ 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.
External links
Media related to Elekmania at Wikimedia Commons
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