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Killipia

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Killipia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Killipia
Gleason

Killipia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now a synonym of Miconia Ruiz & Pav..[1]

It is native range was Colombia and Ecuador.[1]

The former genus name of Killipia was in honour of Ellsworth Paine Killip (1890–1968), an English painter and illustrator.[2] It was first published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 52: 456 in 1925.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Killipia Gleason | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.