Thawatchaia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Podostemaceae |
Genus: | Thawatchaia M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita |
Thawatchaia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Podostemaceae. [1]
The genus name of Thawatchaia is in honour of Thawatchai Santisuk (b. 1944), a Thai herbarium director in Bangkok, and also, Thawatchai Wongprasert (fl. 2000), a plant collector. [2] It was first described and published in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. Vol.55 on page 66 in 2004. [1]
Accepted by Kew: [1]
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