Hottonia is a genus of aquatic flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It comprises two species, both of which are known by the common name featherfoil:[1]
Inflorescences of the two Hottonia species
H. palustris
H. inflata
Hottonia palustris, or water violet, native to Europe and western Asia
Hottonia inflata, or American featherfoil, native to North America
The two species differ markedly in the size of the flowers, which are showy in the Eurasian H. palustris but much smaller in the North American H. inflata, and in the thickness of the stem, which is swollen in H. inflata but not in H. palustris.[1] The two species also differ in their breeding system: H. palustris is heterostylous, whereas H. inflata is not.[2]
Carl Linnaeus named the genus in his 1753 book Species Plantarum,[1] commemorating the botanist Peter Hotton.[3]
Further reading
T. L. Prankerd (1911). "On the structure and biology of the genus Hottonia". Annals of Botany. old series. 25 (1): 253–268. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089318.
References
^ abcAnita F. Cholewa (2009). "Hottonia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 145. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 72. 1754". Magnoliophyta: Paeoniaceae to Ericaceae. Flora of North America. 8. Oxford University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-19-534026-6.
^Austin R. Mast, Sylvia Kelso & Elena Conti (2006). "Are any primroses (Primula) primitively monomorphic?" (PDF pre-print). New Phytologist. 171 (3): 605–616. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01700.x. PMID 16866962.
^David Gledhill (2002). The Names of Plants (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-521-52340-0.
External links
Media related to Hottonia at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Wikidata: Q158837
Wikispecies: Hottonia
APDB: 191496
APNI: 158835
BioLib: 39287
EoL: 71257
EPPO: 1HONG
FNA: 115802
FoC: 115802
GBIF: 3169298
GRIN: 5811
iNaturalist: 143763
IPNI: 32797-1
IRMNG: 1281662
ITIS: 24047
NBN: NHMSYS0000459768
NCBI: 175036
PLANTS: HOTTO
POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:32797-1
Tropicos: 40027842
VASCAN: 1897
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