Thawatchaia

Thawatchaia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Podostemaceae.[1]

Thawatchaia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Podostemaceae
Genus: Thawatchaia
M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita

The genus name of Thawatchaia is in honour of Thawatchai Santisuk (b. 1944), a Thai herbarium director in Bangkok, and also, Thawatchai Wongprasert (fl. 2000), a plant collector.[2] It was first described and published in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. Vol.55 on page 66 in 2004.[1]

It is native range to Thailand and Laos.[1]

Known species

Accepted by Kew:[1]

  • Thawatchaia laotica Koi & M.Kato
  • Thawatchaia trilobata M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita

References
  1. "Thawatchaia M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 March 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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