Vailia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Asclepiadeae
Genus: Vailia
Rusby
Species:
V. mucronata
Binomial name
Vailia mucronata
Rusby
Synonyms[1]
  • Blepharodon bolivianum Malme
  • Blepharodon peruvianum Schltr.

Vailia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It just contains one species, Vailia mucronata Rusby[1][2]

It is native to Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.[2]

The genus name of Vailia is in honour of Anna Murray Vail (1863–1955), an American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden.[3] The Latin specific epithet of mucronata means sharp-edged, from mucro, sword-point or edge.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.25 on page 500 in 1898.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Vailia mucronata Rusby". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Vailia Rusby | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  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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