Vailia
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Vailia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Apocynaceae |
Subfamily: | Asclepiadoideae |
Tribe: | Asclepiadeae |
Genus: | Vailia Rusby |
Species: | V. mucronata
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Binomial name | |
Vailia mucronata Rusby
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Vailia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It just contains one species, Vailia mucronata Rusby[1][2]
It is native to Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.[2]
The genus name of Vailia is in honour of Anna Murray Vail (1863–1955), an American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden.[3] The Latin specific epithet of mucronata means sharp-edged, from mucro, sword-point or edge.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.25 on page 500 in 1898.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Vailia mucronata Rusby". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ a b c "Vailia Rusby | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.