Balthasaria

{{short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |taxon = Balthasaria |authority = Verdc. |synonyms = ''Melchiora'' {{small|Kobuski}}<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Balthasaria'' Verdc. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39160-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=en}}</ref> }} '''''Balthasaria''''' is a genus of plant in the family Pentaphylacaceae.<ref>{{Citation |last=Stevens |first=P.F. |title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website |url=http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ |accessdate=2014-09-18 }}</ref> They are found in Africa, within Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaïre.<ref name="POWO"/>

Originally the species was called ''Melchiora'' by Clarence Emmeren Kobuski in 1956 in honour of Hans Melchior (1894 - 1984) a German botanist, but this was deemed incorrect by IPNI, as Kobuski should have formed his name by adding 'ia' to Melchior, becoming an illegitimate homonym for the fungal genus ''Melchioria'' published by Penzig and Saccardo in 1897, in honor of Melchior Treub. Botanist Bernard Verdcourt noted "Since a new name is inevitable I have chosen one based on one of the other 'wise men", ie, Balthazar.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

It contains the following species : * ''Balthasaria mannii'' <small>(Oliv.) Verdc.</small> * ''Balthasaria schliebenii'' <small>(Melch.) Verdc.</small>

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Category:Pentaphylacaceae Category:Ericales genera Category:Afromontane flora Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot