''Brunia'' is a genus of shrubs of the family
Bruniaceae
Bruniaceae is a family of shrubs native to the cape region of South Africa. They are mostly restricted to the Cape Province, but a small number of species occur in KwaZulu-Natal.
Description
Species belonging to the Bruniaceae are heath-like s ...
, native to the cape region of
South Africa
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.
Taxonomy
The genus was described by
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
and published in ''
Species Plantarum
' (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known at the time, classified into genera. It is the first work to consistently apply binomial names and was the ...
'' 1: 199 in the year 1753. The type species is ''Brunia paleacea'' P.J.Bergius, Descriptiones Plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei, 56. (1767)
The name ''Brunia'' is thought to have been derived from the
apothecary
''Apothecary'' () is a mostly archaic term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses '' materia medica'' (medicine) to physicians, surgeons, and patients. The modern chemist (British English) or pharmacist (British and North Ameri ...
, Dr Cornelis Brun, who travelled in Russia and the Levant, although it could also be in commemoration of Dr Alexander Brown, a ship's surgeon and a collector who worked in the East Indies around 1690.
[Umberto Quattrocchi ]
Species
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Brunia africana''
Burm.f.
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Brunia angulata''
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Brunia barnardii''
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Brunia bullata''
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Brunia callunoides''
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Brunia compacta''
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Brunia cordata''
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Brunia dregeana''
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Brunia esterhuyseniae''
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Brunia fragarioides''
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Brunia laevis''
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Brunia latebracteata''
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Brunia macrocephala''
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Brunia microphylla''
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Brunia monogyna''
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Brunia monostyla''
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Brunia myrtoides''
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Brunia neglecta''
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Brunia nodiflora''
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Brunia noduliflora''
Goldblatt & J.C.Manning, cone stompie
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Brunia oblongifolia''
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Brunia paleacea''
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Brunia palustris''
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Brunia pentandra''
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Brunia phylicoides''
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Brunia pillansii''
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Brunia powrieae''
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Brunia purpurea''
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Brunia sacculata''
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Brunia schlecteri''
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Brunia sphaerocephala''
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Brunia squalida''
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Brunia thomae''
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Brunia trigyna''
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Brunia tulbaghensis''
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Brunia variabilis''
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Brunia villosa''
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Brunia virgata''
The genus is accepted by
United States Department of Agriculture
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and the
Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area. ARS is charged with ext ...
, but they only accept ''Brunia albiflora'', ''Brunia lanuginosa'',''Brunia nodiflora'', ''Brunia noduliflora'', ''Brunia paleacea'' and ''Brunia stokoei''.
[Species Records of ''Brunia''.]
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Kew
Kew () is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its population at the 2011 census was 11,436. Kew is the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens ("Kew Gardens"), now a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace. Kew is a ...
accepts the above species except ''Brunia nodiflora''.
References
Other sources
* Lamarck, J-B. 1785. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1(2): 474
Bruniaceae
Flora of the Cape Provinces
Flora of KwaZulu-Natal
Asterid genera
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