Restella

{{Short description|Species of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox |image = |image_caption = |status = LC |status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name="iucn">{{cite iucn |author=Participants of the FFI/IUCN SSC Central Asian regional tree Red Listing workshop, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (11-13 July 2006)|year= 2007|title= ''Restella alberti''|volume= 2007|article-number= e.T63498A12671256 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63498A12671256.en|access-date= 26 November 2021}}</ref> |genus = Restella |parent_authority = Pobed. |species = alberti |authority = (Regel) Pobed. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=Species>{{cite POWO |id=832732-1 |title=''Restella alberti'' (Regel) Pobed. |access-date=26 November 2021}}</ref> |synonyms = {{species list |Stellera alberti |Regel |Wikstroemia alberti |(Regel) Mottet }} }}

'''''Restella''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Restella'' Pobed. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39313-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It only contains one known species, '''''Restella alberti''''' <small>(Regel) Pobed.</small><ref name="POWO" /><ref name=Species/>

It is native to Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.<ref name="POWO" /> It is listed as least concern in these 3 regions. It has a limited habitat range in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, but the plant is not under any threats. Most of the populations of the plant in Uzbekistan are within protected areas.<ref name="iucn"/>

The genus name of ''Restella'' is in honour of Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709–1746), a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and is considered a pioneer of Alaskan natural history.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 }}</ref> The specific epithet ''alberti'' honors Albert von Regel, one of two collectors of specimens cited in the original publication of the species in 1886 as ''Stellera albertii'' by Albert's father, Eduard August von Regel. The genus was first described and published in Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) Vol.26 on pages 35-36 in 1941.<ref name="POWO"/><ref name=Species/>

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Category:Thymelaeaceae Category:Monotypic Malvales genera Category:Plants described in 1941 Category:Flora of Central Asia Category:Thymelaeaceae genera