Vailia

Vailia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Asclepiadoideae
Tribe:	Asclepiadeae
Genus:	Vailia Rusby
Species:	V. mucronata
Binomial name
Vailia mucronata Rusby
Synonyms [1]
Blepharodon bolivianumMalme Blepharodon peruvianumSchltr.

Vailia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It just contains one species, Vailia mucronataRusby. ^{[1] [2]}

It is native to Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. ^[2]

The genus name of Vailia is in honour of Anna Murray Vail (1863–1955), an American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden. ^[3] The Latin specific epithet of mucronata means sharp-edged, from mucro, sword-point or edge. ^[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.25 on page 500 in 1898. ^{[1] [2]}

References

1. "Vailia mucronata Rusby". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 3 January 2022.
2. "Vailia Rusby | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN   978-1845337315.