Morsacanthus

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Morsacanthus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Morsacanthus
Rizzini
Species:
M. nemoralis
Binomial name
Morsacanthus nemoralis
Rizzini

Morsacanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. [1] The only species is Morsacanthus nemoralisRizzini. [2]

It is native to southern Brazil. [2]

The genus name of Morsacanthus is in honour of Walter Baptist Mors (1920–2008), a Brazilian chemist who researched useful plants. [3] The Latin specific epithet of nemoralis means coming from the forest. [4] Both genus and species were first described and published in Revista Brasil. Biol. Vol.12 on page 261 in 1952. [2]

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References

  1. "Morsacanthus Rizzini | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Morsacanthus nemoralis Rizzini | 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.