''Mannagettaea'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s belonging to the family
Orobanchaceae
Orobanchaceae, the broomrapes, is a family (biology), family of mostly parasitic plants of the order (biology), order Lamiales, with about 90 genus, genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera (e.g., ''Pedicularis'', ''Rhinanthus'', ...
.
It is a
holoparasitic plant.
It is native to southern Siberia (within
Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast (; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara River, Angara, Lena River, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is ...
and
Tuva
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) and also northern China (in
Qinghai
Qinghai is an inland Provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. It is the largest provinces of China, province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xin ...
).
The genus name of ''Mannagettaea'' is in honour of
Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau
Günther Ritter Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (25 August 1856 in Pressburg, modern Bratislava – 23 June 1931 in Prague) was an Austrian botanist.
Life
Ritter Beck-Mannagetta, son of a state prosecutor, studied at the University of Vienna, ...
(1856–1931), a prominent Austrian botanist.
It was first described and published in Acta Horti Gothob. Vol.8 on page 135 in 1933.
Known species, according to Kew;
*''
Mannagettaea hummelii''
*''
Mannagettaea labiata''
References
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Orobanchaceae
Orobanchaceae genera
Plants described in 1933
Flora of China
Flora of Siberia