Whitmorea

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Whitmorea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Aquifoliales
Family: Stemonuraceae
Genus: Whitmorea
Sleumer
Species:
W. grandiflora
Binomial name
Whitmorea grandiflora
Sleumer

Whitmorea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Stemonuraceae. It only contains one known species, Whitmorea grandiflora. [1]

It is native to the Solomon Islands. [1]

The genus name of Whitmorea is in honour of Timothy Charles Whitmore (1935–2002), an English ecologist, botanist, geologist and climatologist. [2] The Latin specific epithet of grandiflora means large flower from Grandis large and flora meaning flower. [3] Both the genus and the species wre first described and published in Blumea Vol.17 on pages 263-264 in 1969. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Whitmorea Sleumer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 March 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   184533731X.