Latouchea

Short description: Genus of plants

Latouchea

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Gentianales
Family:  | Gentianaceae
Genus:  | Latouchea
Franch.

Latouchea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gentianaceae.[1] It only contains one species, Latouchea fokienensis Franch. [2]

It is native to southern China.[2]

The genus name of Latouchea is in honour of John David Digues La Touche (1861–1935) an Irish ornithologist, naturalist, and zoologist as well as his wife, who both collected botanical specimens.[3] The Latin specific epithet of fokienensis refers to his wife, née Caroline Dawson Focken (1871 – 1945).[3] Both genus and species were first described and published in Bull. Soc. Bot. France Vol.46 on page 212 in 1899.[2]

## References

1. ↑ "Latouchea Franch. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16611-1.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Latouchea fokienensis Franch. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:369718-1.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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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