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- Title: Eduandrea, A New Generic Name for Andrea (Scientific) (Report)
- Author : Journal of the Bromeliad Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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Taxonomic history Andrea selloana (Baker) Mez was originally described as Quesnelia selloana Baker (Baker 1889), based on the specimen no. 1414 of Friedrich Sello (or Sellow; 1789-1831) deposited in the Berlin Botanical Garden and Museum Herbarium (B). Mez (1892) questioned the placement in Quesnelia, noting the unusual grass-like habit ("Species adhuc omnino dubiae sedis, caule gramineo-foliato ab omnibus reliquis Aechmeinis recedens, habitu Sodiroae species in memoriam revocat"). Four years later, Mez (1896) established the genus Andrea, in honor of the French botanist and horticulturalist Eduard-Francois Andre (1840-1911), to accommodate this unusual species, A. selloana. The monotypic Andrea was originally classified in the nomenclaturally invalid "section" Aechmeinae close to the genus Orthophytum (Mez, 1896). Years later Mez (1934) still maintained Andrea within Aechmeinae (now a subtribe) close to Orthophytum. In 1955, Smith (1955) placed Andrea between Nidularium and Bromelia, but this view had changed in Smith and Downs (1979) where it was positioned between Greigia and Bromelia.
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