Saintpauliopsis
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| Saintpauliopsis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Genus: | Saintpauliopsis Staner |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Staurogyne lebrunii (Staner) B.L.Burtt | |
Saintpauliopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Saintpauliopsis lebrunii Staner [2]
It is native to Burundi, Gabon, Madagascar, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zaïre.[2]
Saintpauliopsis was originally classified in the family Gesneriaceae and the genus name, meaning "similar to Saintpaulia" (now synonymized under Streptocarpus), indirectly honors Walter Le Tanneux de Saint Paul-Illaire (1860–1940), a German imperial precinct captain in German East Africa (roughly present-day Tanzania), and his father, Ulrich Maximilian von Saint Paul-Illaire (1833–1902), a German naval officer and court official.[3] The Latin specific epithet of lebrunii refers to Belgian botanist Lebrun, Jean Paul Antoine (1906-1985).[4] It was first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles Vol.13 on page 8 in 1934.[2]