Schouwia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Orthokaryota
Cladus: Neokaryota
Cladus: Photokaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: CAM
Regnum*: Archaeplastida
Regnum: Plantae
Regnum*: Viridiplantae
Cladus: Streptophyta
Cladus: Phragmoplastophyta
Cladus: Embryophyta
Cladus: Polysporangiophyta
Divisio*: Tracheophyta
Cladus: Eutracheophyta
Cladus: Euphyllophytina
Cladus: Megaphylla
Cladus: Radiatopses
Cladus: Lignophyta
Cladus: Metalignophyta
Diviso*: Spermatophyta
Classis*: Angiospermae
Cladus: Mesangiospermae
Cladus: Eudicota
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Brassicales

Familia: Brassicaceae
Subfamilia: Brassicoideae
Tribus: Brassiceae
Genus: Schouwia
Species: S. purpurea
Name

Schouwia DC. Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 244. (1821)

monotypic taxon

References

Candolle, A.P. de 1821. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 7: 244.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Schouwia. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 8 2017. Reference page.
Koch, M.A. et al. 2017. Schouwia in BrassiBase Tools and biological resources to study characters and traits in the Brassicaceae. Published online. Accessed: 2017 Feb. 8.
Tropicos.org 2017. Schouwia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 8 Feb. 2017.

Schouwia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Schouwia purpurea (Forssk.) Schweinf. [2]

Its native range is Sahara and Sahel to the Arabian Peninsula (Palestine and Saudi Arabia). It is found in the African countries of Algeria, Burkina, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.[2][1]

The genus name of Schouwia is in honour of Joakim Frederik Schouw (1789–1852), a Danish lawyer, botanist and politician. From 1821, he was a professor in botany at the University of Copenhagen.[3] The genus has 2 known synoyms; Cyclopterygium Hochst. and Subularia Forssk.[2] The Latin specific epithet of purpurea means purplish or purple-like.[4] It was first described and published in Syst. Nat. Vol.2 on page 643 in 1821.[2] Then the species was published in Bull. Herb. Boissier Vol.4 (App. 2) on page 183 in 1896.[1]
References

"Schouwia purpurea (Forssk.) Schweinf". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
"Schouwia DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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.
Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.