Donella (plant)

Genus of plants

Donella

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Ericales
Family:  | Sapotaceae
Subfamily:  | Chrysophylloideae
Genus:  | Donella
Pierre ex Baill. (1891)[1]
Synonyms[1]

Austrogambeya Aubrév. & Pellegr. (1961)

Donella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Sapotaceae.[1]

Its wide native range extends from tropical and subtropical Old World to northern Queensland. It is found in (listed alphabetically) Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Java, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nigeria, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Solomon Island, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[1]

Its genus name of Donella, is in honour of George Don (1798–1856), a Scottish botanist and plant collector,[2] and it was published in Hist. Pl. Vol.11 o page 294 in 1891.[1]

## Species[edit]

Known species:[1]

* Donella ambrensis Aubrév. – northern Madagascar
* Donella analalavensis Aubrév. – northwestern and northern Madagascar
* Donella bangweolensis (R.E.Fr. & Pellegr.) Mackinder – Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and Tanzania
* Donella capuronii (G.E.Schatz & L.Gaut.) Mackinder & L.Gaut. – northeastern Madagascar
* Donella delphinensis Aubrév. – eastern Madagascar
* Donella fenerivensis Aubrév. – northeastern Madagascar
* Donella guereliana (Aubrév.) Mackinder – western and northern Madagascar
* Donella humbertii Capuron ex Mackinder & L.Gaut. – western and north-central Madagascar
* Donella lanceolata (Blume) Aubrév. – northern and eastern Madagascar
* Donella masoalensis Aubrév. – northeastern Madagascar
* Donella ogoouensis (A.Chev.) Aubrév. & Pellegr. – Gabon
* Donella perrieri Lecomte – Madagascar
* Donella pruniformis (Engl.) Pierre ex Engl. – western and central Africa to Uganda
* Donella ranirisonii L.Gaut. & Mackinder – northeastern Madagascar
* Donella ubangiensis (De Wild.) Aubrév. – western and central Africa to Uganda
* Donella viridifolia (J.M.Wood & Franks) Aubrév. & Pellegr. – KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Mozambique, Malawi, and Kenya
* Donella welwitschii (Engl.) Pierre ex Engl. – western and central Africa to Angola and Zambia

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e f "Donella Pierre ex Baill. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
2. ^ 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

Taxon identifiers

Donella|

* Wikidata: Q16753865
* Wikispecies: Donella
* APDB: 190298
* APNI: 215545
* CoL: 8WF8X
* GBIF: 7333494
* GRIN: 21180
* IPNI: 36719-1
* IRMNG: 1335230
* NCBI: 2800709
* Open Tree of Life: 7594839
* Paleobiology Database: 28497
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36719-1
* Tropicos: 40034966
* WFO: wfo-4000012413