Sauvallia
Genus of plants
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Sauvallia is a monotypic genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Commelinaceae, first described as a genus in 1871. The genus consists of a single species, Sauvallia blainii, which was endemic to Cuba.
| Sauvallia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Commelinales |
| Family: | Commelinaceae |
| Subfamily: | Commelinoideae |
| Tribe: | Tradescantieae |
| Subtribe: | Thyrsanthemineae |
| Genus: | Sauvallia C.Wright ex Hassk. |
| Species: | S. blainii |
| Binomial name | |
| Sauvallia blainii C.Wright ex Hassk. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The species is believed to be extinct.[1][2][3]
The genus name of Sauvallia is in honour of Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle (1807–1879), Cuban botanist and expert in molluscs.[4] It is not known what the Latin specific epithet of blainii refers to.
It was first described and published in Commelin. Ind.: 61 in 1870. Plants of the World Online note that Sauvallea C.Wright, is a synonym of Sauvallia C.Wright ex Hassk.[5]
It was placed within subtribe Thyrsanthemineae, due to its solitary spathe inclosing a single flower. It also has six, equal, filaments bearded (as part of the stamen) and subequal petals. Specimens exist at the Missouri Dunn-Palmer Herbarium.[6]
