Jagrantia

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Jagrantia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Bromeliaceae
Genus: Jagrantia
Barfuss & W.Till
Species:
J. monstrum
Binomial name
Jagrantia monstrum
(Mez) Barfuss & W.Till

Jagrantia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. [1] It only contains one species, Jagrantia monstrum. [2]

Its native range is south-eastern Nicaragua to northern Ecuador. It is found in the countries of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Panama. [2]

The genus name of Jagrantia is in honour of Jason Randall Grant (b. 1969), an American botanist in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and specialist in Bromeliaceae. [3] The Latin specific epithet of monstrum refers to monstrum meaning "a malfunctioning of nature". The word monster is derived from this term. [4] It was first described and published in Phytotaxa Vol.279 on pages 51-52 in 2016. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Jagrantia Barfuss & W.Till | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jagrantia monstrum (Mez) Barfuss & W.Till | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 5 October 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. S2CID   187926901 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin". www.mobot.org. Retrieved 5 October 2021. L. monstrum; like Latin, 'signum,' a sign in the heavens, a constellation, meteor" (Liddell & Scott)
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