''Muehlbergella'' is a
monotypic genus of
flowering plants in the family
Campanulaceae. It contains a single species, ''Muehlbergella oweriniana''. It is
critically endangered
Distribution
The species is endemic to an area of ~40 km
2 in
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
,
North Caucasus, where it grows between cracks and calcareous rocky ground.
Taxonomy
The genus and species were both described by
Heinrich Feer and published in ''Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie'' Vol.12 (Issue 5) on pages 615–616 in 1890.
The genus name of ''Muehlbergella'' is in honour of
Friedrich Mühlberg (1840–1915), a Swiss geologist. The Latin
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
of ''oweriniana'' refers to the original collector, Alexander Pavlovic Owerin, a Russian military topographer, florist, and botanical collector. Owerin had collected plants from the mountains of Dagestan (1860-61) and other places in the Caucasus.
References
Campanuloideae
Campanulaceae genera
Monotypic Campanulaceae genera
Plants described in 1890
Flora of the North Caucasus
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