Mcvaughia

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

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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