Vailia

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Vailia
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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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Vailia mucronata Rusby". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "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   184533731X.