Biology:Tourrettia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Tourrettia
Tourrettia lappacea (Bignoniaceae) (32270831381).jpg
Tourrettia lappacea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Tourrettia
Foug.
Synonyms[1]
  • J.F.Gmel. L'Hér.
  • Tourrettia dombeya Dombeya lappacea
  • Schreb. ex Forsyth f. Tourrettia volubilis

Tourrettia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Tourrettia lappacea (L'Hér.) Willd.[2][1] The genus of Tourrettia has 2 known synonyms, Dombeya L'Hér. and Medica Cothen.[2] It is also in Tribe Tourrettieae.[3]

Its native range stretches from Mexico down to north-western Argentina. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru and Venezuela.[2]

The genus name of Tourrettia is in honour of Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette (1729–1793), a French botanist.[4] The Latin specific epithet of lappacea is derived from lappa meaning with burrs.[5] It was first described and published in Mém. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 1784 on page 205 in 1787.[2] The species was published in Sp. Pl. edition 4 Vol.3 on page 263 in 1800.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Tourrettia lappacea (L'Hér.) Willd." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/111357-1. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Tourrettia Foug. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332024-2. 
  3. Gentry, Alwyn H. (19 September 1980). "Part I (Crescentieae and Tourrettieae)". Flora Neotropica 25 (1): 1-130. 
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021. 
  5. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X. 

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