Biology:Sessea sodiroi

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Sessea sodiroi
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Sessea
Species:
S. sodiroi
Binomial name
Sessea sodiroi
Bitter

Sessea sodiroi is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae, it can grow up to tree-size. It is endemic to Ecuador.

It was first published and described in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. vol.18 on page 208 in 1922.[2]

The specific epithet of sodiroi refers to Luis Sodiro (1836–1909), who was an Italian Jesuit priest and a field botanist,who collected many plants in Ecuador.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7456112 entry