Moriera

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Moriera
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Moriera
Boiss.

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

Its native range is Central Asia and it is found in the countries of Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan. [2]

The genus name of Moriera is in honour of James Justinian Morier (c. 1780 – 1849), a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about the Qajar dynasty in Iran, most famously for the Hajji Baba series. [3] The Latin specific epithet of spinosa is derived from spina meaning spiny. [4] The genus was first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., série 2 Vol.16 on page 380 in 1841, [1] and then the species, Moriera spinosa was first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.2, vol.17 on page 182 in 1842. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Moriera Boiss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Moriera spinosa Boiss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 28 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 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199102051.
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