Schimpera

Species of flowering plant

Schimpera

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Brassicales
Family:  | Brassicaceae
Genus:  | Schimpera
Steud. & Hochst. ex Endl.
Species:  |

S. arabica

Binomial name
Schimpera arabica

Hochst. & Steud.

Synonyms[1]

* Schimpera arabica subsp. persica (Boiss.) Hadac & Chrtek
* Schimpera persica Boiss.

Schimpera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. The only species is Schimpera arabica.[2]

Its native range is eastern Mediterranean to Iran and Arabian Peninsula. It is found in Egypt, the Gulf States, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the Sinai desert.[2]

The genus name of Schimpera is in honour of Georg Wilhelm Schimper (1804–1878), a German botanist and naturalist.[3] The genus has the synonym of Traillia Lindl. ex Endl.[2] The Latin specific epithet of arabica means coming from the land of the Arabs. It was first described and published in Gen. Pl. on page 889 in 1839.[2] The species was first published in E.G.von Steudel, Nomencl. Bot., ed.2, Vol.2 on page 530 in 1841.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Schimpera arabica Hochst. & Steud". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
2. ^ a b c d "Schimpera Steud. & Hochst. ex Endl. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 May 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.

Taxon identifiers

Schimpera|

* Wikidata: Q9074999
* Wikispecies: Schimpera
* APDB: 194672
* CoL: 7DF2
* GBIF: 3050639
* GRIN: 10832
* IPNI: 13018-1
* IRMNG: 1322080
* NCBI: 664057
* Open Tree of Life: 620330
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:13018-1
* Tropicos: 40031368
* WFO: wfo-4000034333

Schimpera arabica|

* Wikidata: Q15548936
* APDB: 142310
* ARKive: schimpera-arabica
* CoL: 4V8DQ
* FoIO: SCHARA
* GBIF: 3050640
* IPNI: 288837-1
* NCBI: 664058
* Open Tree of Life: 620338
* Plant List: kew-2475837
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:288837-1
* Tropicos: 4100250
* WoI: 1409
* WFO: wfo-0000432342