Pranceacanthus

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Pranceacanthus
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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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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Pranceacanthus Wassh. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN   978-1845337315.