Humbertia

Humbertia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Convolvulaceae.[1] It only contains one species, Humbertia madagascariensis Lam.[2] It is native to Madagascar.[2]

Humbertia
Illustration by J.E. Smith from Plantarum icones hactenus ineditae, vol. 1: t. 7 (between 1789 and 1791)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Humbertia
Lam.
Species:
H. madagascariensis
Binomial name
Humbertia madagascariensis
Synonyms
  • Endrachium madagascariense (Lam.) J.F.Gmel.
  • Humbertia aeviternia Comm. ex Lam.
  • Smithia thouinia J.F.Gmel.
  • Thouinia spectabilis Sm.

The genus name (Humbertia) is in honour of Philibert Commerson (1727–1773), a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769.[3] The Latin specific epithet, madagascariensis, means coming from Madagascar. Both genus and species were first described and published by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in Encycl. Vol.2 on page 356 in 1786.[2]

References
  1. "Humbertia Lam. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  2. "Humbertia madagascariensis Lam. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 October 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.
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