Pranceacanthus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Acanthaceae |
Genus: | Pranceacanthus Wassh. (1984) |
Species: | P. coccineus |
Binomial name | |
Pranceacanthus coccineus Wassh. (1984) | |
Pranceacanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. [1] It only contains one known species, Pranceacanthus coccineusWassh. [1]
It is native to Bolivia and (northern and west central) Brazil. [1]
The genus name of Pranceacanthus is in honour of Ghillean Prance (b. 1937), a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae. [2] The Latin specific epithet of coccineus means scarlet and is derived from coccum.. [3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Brittonia Vol.36 on page 1 in 1984. [1]
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