Biology:Halacsya

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Short description: Genus of plants

Halacsya
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Halacsya
Dörfl.
Synonyms
  • Zwackhia aurea Mertensia sendtneri
  • (Boiss.) Janka Janka
  • Sendtn. Zwackhia sendtneri
  • Moltkia sendtneri (Boiss.) K.Malý
  • Mertensia serbica Boiss.

Halacsya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae.[1] It only contains one species, Halacsya sendtneri (Boiss.) Dörfl. [2]

It is native to the Balkan Peninsula and is found in Albania, Greece and the former Yugoslavia.[2]

It has one known subspecies; Halacsya sendtneri subsp. devollensis F.K.Mey. (from Albania).[2]

The genus name of Halacsya is in honour of Eugen von Halácsy (1842–1913), an Austrian physician and botanist of Hungarian descent.[3] The Latin specific epithet of sendtneri refers to Otto Sendtner, (1813–1859) a German botanist and phytogeographer. Halacsya sendtneri was first described and published in Exsicc. (Herb. Norm.) Vol.44 on page 103, n.º 4364 in 1902.[2]

Culture

In 2020, the Republic of Kosovo issued a set of postage stamps with images of various flora including Halacsya sendtneri.[4]

References

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