Tourrettia
Tourrettia lappacea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Tourrettia
Foug.
Synonyms[1]
  • Dombeya lappacea L'Hér.
  • Tourrettia dombeya Schreb. ex Forsyth f.
  • Tourrettia volubilis J.F.Gmel.

Tourrettia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Tourrettia lappacea (L'Hér.) Willd.[2][1] The genus of Tourrettia has 2 known synonyms, Dombeya L'Hér. and Medica Cothen.[2] It is also in Tribe Tourrettieae.[3]

Its native range stretches from Mexico down to north-western Argentina. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru and Venezuela.[2]

The genus name of Tourrettia is in honour of Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette (1729–1793), a French botanist.[4] The Latin specific epithet of lappacea is derived from lappa meaning with burrs.[5] It was first described and published in Mém. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 1784 on page 205 in 1787.[2] The species was published in Sp. Pl. edition 4 Vol.3 on page 263 in 1800.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tourrettia lappacea (L'Hér.) Willd". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Tourrettia Foug. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  3. ↑ Gentry, Alwyn H. (19 September 1980). "Part I (Crescentieae and Tourrettieae)". Flora Neotropica. 25 (1): 1–130.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.
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