Mcvaughia

Mcvaughia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Malpighiaceae
Genus:	Mcvaughia W.R.Anderson
Species:	M. bahiana
Binomial name
Mcvaughia bahiana W.R.Anderson

Mcvaughia is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Mcvaughia contains only one species, Mcvaughia bahiana, a shrub occurring in open shrubby vegetation (caatinga) on sandy soils of lowland Bahia, Brazil . It is related to Burdachia and Glandonia.

The genus was named in honor of the American taxonomist Rogers McVaugh (1909–2009).

References

• Malpighiaceae Malpighiaceae - description, taxonomy, phylogeny, and nomenclature
• Mcvaughia
• Anderson, W. R. 1979. Mcvaughia, a new genus of Malpighiaceae from Brazil. Taxon 28: 157–161.

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