Sandemania
Species of flowering plant
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Sandemania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. The only known species is Sandemania hoehnei.[2]
| Sandemania | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Melastomataceae |
| Genus: | Sandemania Gleason |
| Species: | S. hoehnei |
| Binomial name | |
| Sandemania hoehnei (Cogn.) Wurdack | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Its native range is southern Tropical America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil (northern and west-central), Peru and Venezuela.[2]
The genus name of Sandemania is in honour of Christopher Albert Walter Sandeman (1882–1951), an English botanist and traveler. He collected in South America.[3] The Latin specific epithet of hoehnei refers to Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959), a Brazilian botanist.[4] The genus was first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939, onpage 480 in 1939.[2] The species was then first published in Phytologia Vol.20 on page 370 in 1970.[1]