Soejatmia

Soejatmia
A cutting, featuring nine long leaves, spread out like a fan. The leaves have dried and are a brown colour.
Soejatmia ridleyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Bambusinae
Genus: Soejatmia
K.M.Wong
Species:
S. ridleyi
Binomial name
Soejatmia ridleyi
(Gamble) K.M.Wong
Synonyms[1]

Bambusa ridleyi Gamble

Soejatmia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae. It just contains one species, Soejatmia ridleyi (Gamble) K.M.Wong[2]

Its native range is from the peninsula of Thailand to Malaya.[2]

The genus name of Soejatmia is in honour of Soejatmi Dransfield (b. 1939), an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and also honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[3] The Latin specific epithet of ridleyi refers to Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855 – 1956), was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Kew Bull. Vol.48 on pages 530-532 in 1993.[1][2]

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Soejatmia ridleyi (Gamble) K.M.Wong". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Soejatmia K.M.Wong | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  3. ^ 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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Ridley, Henry Nicholas | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Genus Soejatmia K. M. Wong". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 16 December 2021.