Wimmeranthus

Wimmeranthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Wimmeranthus
Rzed. (2018)
Species:
W. inopinatus
Binomial name
Wimmeranthus inopinatus
Rzed. (2018)

Wimmeranthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Campanulaceae. It contains a single species, Wimmeranthus inopinatus, an annual endemic to Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico.[1]

It is known from a specimen collected near San Juan Mixtepec in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, growing in a forest of Juniperus flaccida, Annona cherimola, and Bursera bipinnata on shallow and rocky soil at 1,800 meters elevation.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Wimmeranthus Rzed. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  2. ^ Rzedowski, J. 2018. Tres novedades de Campanulaceae-Lobelioideae del estado de Oaxaca (México). Phytoneuron 2018-15: 1–9. Published 28 March 2018. ISSN 2153-733X