Pinzona

Pinzona is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Dilleniaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Pinzona coriacea Mart. & Zucc.[1]

Pinzona
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Dilleniales
Family: Dilleniaceae
Genus: Pinzona
Mart. & Zucc.
Synonyms[1]
  • Calinea bentegeati Walp. & Duchass. ex Eichler
  • Curatella coriacea (Mart. & Zucc.) Benoist
  • Doliocarpus belizensis Lundell
  • Doliocarpus calineoides (Eichler) Gilg
  • Doliocarpus coriacea (Mart. & Zucc.) Gilg
  • Doliocarpus nicaraguensis Standl.
  • Pinzona calineoides Eichler

Its native range is Tropical America. It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (northern), Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, the Leeward Islands, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela and the Windward Islands.[1]

The genus name of Pinzona is in honour of Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (c. 1462 – after 1514), a Spanish navigator and explorer, the youngest of the Pinzón brothers. Along with his older brother, Martín Alonso Pinzón (c. 1441 – c. 1493), who captained the Pinta, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World, in 1492, as captain of the Niña.[3] The Latin specific epithet of coriacea means leather-like from corium.[4] Both the genus and the specied were first described and published in Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Vol.1 on page 371 (1829-1830, published in 1832).[1]

References
  1. "Pinzona coriacea Mart. & Zucc". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. "Pinzona Mart. & Zucc. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 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. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.
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