Marcetella

Marcetella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae.[1]

Marcetella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Marcetella
Svent.

It is native to the Canary Islands and Madeira within Macaronesia .[1]

The genus name of Marcetella is in honour of Adeodato Francisco Marcet (1875–1964), a Spanish clergyman, botanist and agronomist. Who also worked in a botanical garden in Blanes.[2] It was first described and published in Bol. Inst. Nac. Invest. Agron. Vol.18 (Issue 95) on page 263 in 1948.[1]

Species

According to Kew:[1]

  • Marcetella maderensis (Bornm.) Svent.
  • Marcetella moquiniana (Webb & Berthel.) Svent.

References
  1. "Marcetella Svent. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 May 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.
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