Grazielanthus

Grazielanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Monimiaceae.[1] The only species is Grazielanthus arkeocarpus.[2]

Grazielanthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Monimiaceae
Genus: Grazielanthus
Peixoto & Per.-Moura
Species:
G. arkeocarpus
Binomial name
Grazielanthus arkeocarpus
Peixoto & Per.-Moura

It is native to south-eastern Brazil.[2]

The genus name of Grazielanthus is in honour of Graziela Maciel Barroso (1912–2003), a Brazilian botanist.[3] The Latin specific epithet of arkeocarpus refers to arkeo meaning the ark-like structure and "carpus" = fruit or carpel, which comes from the protection of the fruitlets by the hypanthium (tube or cup-like structure in a flower that includes the bases of sepals, petals, and stamens.[4] It was first described and published in Kew Bull. 63: 138 (2008).[2]

References
  1. "Grazielanthus Peixoto & Per.-Moura | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. "Grazielanthus arkeocarpus Peixoto & Per.-Moura | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  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. Peixoto, Ariane Luna; Pereira-Moura, Maria Verônica Leite (2008). "A New Genus of Monimiaceae from the Atlantic Coastal Forest in South-Eastern Brazil". Kew Bulletin. 63 (1): 137–141.
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