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Pranceacanthus

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Pranceacanthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Pranceacanthus
Wassh. (1984)
Species:
P. coccineus
Binomial name
Pranceacanthus coccineus
Wassh. (1984)

Pranceacanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Pranceacanthus coccineus Wassh.[1]

It is native to Bolivia and (northern and west central) Brazil.[1]

The genus name of Pranceacanthus is in honour of Ghillean Prance (b. 1937), a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae.[2] The Latin specific epithet of coccineus means scarlet and is derived from coccum..[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Brittonia Vol.36 on page 1 in 1984.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Pranceacanthus Wassh. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 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.
  3. ^ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.