Lundinia

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Lundinia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Lundinia
B.Nord.
Species:
L. plumbea
Binomial name
Lundinia plumbea
Synonyms

Senecio plumbeusGriseb.

Lundinia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. [1] It only contains one known species, Lundinia plumbea. [2]

It is native to Cuba and the Dominican Republic. [2]

The genus name of Lundinia is in honour of Roger Lundin (1955–2005), a Swedish botanist at the natural history museum in Stockholm. [3] The Latin specific epithet of plumbea refers to plumbeus meaning leaden. [4]

The genus was first described and published in Compositae Newslett. Vol.44 on pages 64–66 in 2006. [2]

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References

  1. "Lundinia B.Nord. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Lundinia plumbea (Griseb.) B.Nord. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 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. Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199102051.