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Petroravenia

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Petroravenia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Petroravenia
Al-Shehbaz
Type species
Petroravenia eseptata
Al-Shehbaz

Petroravenia is a genus of plants in the family Brassicaceae, first described in 1994.[1] There are to date only two species proposed as members of the genus:[2]

The genus Petroravenia was named in honor of Peter H. Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. The plants are superficially similar to those of the genus Draba, but differ from them in several technical fruit and seed characters. Most important of these is Petroravenia's lack of septum diving the fruit into two compartments, which is the usual case in the family.[1][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan Ali. 1994. Petroravenia (Brassicaceae), a new genus from Argentina. Novon 4(3):191-196..
  2. ^ Tropicos
  3. ^ Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan Ali. 2012. Taxon 61: 950
  4. ^ Zuloaga, F. O. 1997. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la Argentina. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 74(1–2): 1–1331.