Sonnea

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Sonnea Greene

Pittonia 1: 22 (1887)

Pronunciation/Pronunciación:
 Són-ne-a
Etymology/Etimología:
 After Charles Frederick Sonne (1845-1913), of Truckee, California
Synonyms/Sinónimos:
 Plagiobothrys Fisch. & C.A.Mey., Index Seminum [St.Petersburg (Petropolitanus)] 2: 46 (printed as 21) (1836)
Type Species/EspeciesTipo:

 Sonnea hispida (A. Gray) Greene, lectotype, after Guilliams et al., 2020)
      [Plagiobothrys hispidus A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 20: 286. 1885]

Distribution of Sonnea:
Distribution map of Sonnea, from POWO Distribution map of Sonnea, from BONAP
LEFT: POWO. 2019. Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org. Green=native. Accessed 31 Dec 2019.
RIGHT: BONAP. 2019. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. http://bonap.net/tdc. Accessed 31 Dec 2019.

TOTAL NUMBER OF TAXA IN GENUS:
2 species and 2 minimally ranked taxa
All North American (USA)

Sonnea glomerata (A.Gray) Greene, Pittonia 1: 22 (1887) [Plagiobothrys glomeratus A.Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 20: 286. 1885]
Sonnea hispida (A.Gray) Greene, Pittonia 1: 22 (1887) [Plagiobothrys hispidus A.Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 20: 286. 1885]

KEY TO SONNEA SPECIES (after Johnston 1923: 64):

Nutlets dark, dull, conspicuously rugose and tuberculate, 1–2.3 mm long ..... Sonnea hispida
Nutlets light colored, somewhat shiny, nearly smooth, 2–3 mm long ..... Sonnea glomerata



LITERATURE CITED:

Fischer, F. E. L. and C. A. Meyer. 1836. Plagiobothrys. Index Seminum [St.Petersburg (Petropolitanus)] 2: 46 (printed as 21).
Guilliams, C.M., Hasenstab-Lehman, K. & Baldwin Bruce, G. 2020. Nomenclatural changes in western North American Amsinckiinae (Boraginaceae). Novon 28: 51-59.
Johnston, I. M. 1923. Studies in the Boraginaceae. A synopsis and redefinition of Plagiobothrys. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 68:57-80.




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