Monteiroa (plant)

Monteiroa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.[1]

Monteiroa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Monteiroa
Krapov.

Its native range is south-eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina.[1]

The genus name of Monteiroa is in honour of Honório da Costa Monteiro Filho (1900–1978), a Brazilian professor of botany and director of the national school of agriculture in Rio de Janeiro and was a specialist in Malvaceae.[2] It was first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.3 on page 237 in 1951.[1]

Species

According to Kew:[1]

  • Monteiroa bullata (Ekman) Krapov.
  • Monteiroa catharinensis Krapov.
  • Monteiroa dusenii (Ekman) Krapov.
  • Monteiroa glomerata (Hook. & Arn.) Krapov.
  • Monteiroa hatschbachii Krapov.
  • Monteiroa leitei Monteiro
  • Monteiroa ptarmicifolia (A.St.-Hil. & Naudin) Krapov.
  • Monteiroa reitzii Krapov.
  • Monteiroa smithii Krapov.
  • Monteiroa triangularifolia Krapov.

References
  1. "Monteiroa Krapov. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 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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