Guiraoa

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Guiraoa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Guiraoa
Coss.

Guiraoa is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. [1] It only contains one species, Guiraoa arvensisCoss. [2]

It is native to Spain. [2]

The genus name of Guiraoa is in honour of Ángel Guirao y Navarro (1817–1890), Spanish doctor, naturalist and politician from Murcia who discovered this plant. [3] The Latin specific epithet of arvensis refers to arvum of ploughed fields or ploughed land. [4] It was first described and published in Notes Pl. Crit. on page 98 in 1851. [2]

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References

  1. "Guiraoa Coss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Guiraoa arvensis Coss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199102051.