Vailia | |
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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] | |
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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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