Pellegrinia

Pellegrinia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Genus:	Pellegrinia; Sleumer

Short description: Genus of plants

Pellegrinia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.^[1]

It is native to Colombia and Peru in western South America.^[1]

The genus name of Pellegrinia is in honour of François Pellegrin (1881–1965), a French botanist, who specialised in the plants of tropical Africa.^[2] It was first described and published in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem Vol.12 on page 287 in 1935.^[1]

Known species

According to Kew:^[1]

Pellegrinia coccinea (Hoerold) Sleumer
Pellegrinia grandiflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Sleumer
Pellegrinia harmsiana (Hoerold) Sleumer
Pellegrinia hirsuta (Ruiz & Pav.) Sleumer

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "Pellegrinia Sleumer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296851-2.
↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

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[POWO-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "Pellegrinia Sleumer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296851-2.

[2] Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.