Monteiroa (plant)

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Monteiroa

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Malvales
Family:  | Malvaceae
Genus:  | Monteiroa
Krapov.

Monteiroa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.[1]

Its native range is south-eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina.[1]

The genus name of Monteiroa is in honour of Honório da Costa Monteiro Filho (1900–1978), a Brazilian professor of botany and director of the national school of agriculture in Rio de Janeiro and was a specialist in Malvaceae.[2] It was first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.3 on page 237 in 1951.[1]

## Species

According to Kew:[1]

* Monteiroa bullata (Ekman) Krapov.
* Monteiroa catharinensis Krapov.
* Monteiroa dusenii (Ekman) Krapov.
* Monteiroa glomerata (Hook. & Arn.) Krapov.
* Monteiroa hatschbachii Krapov.
* Monteiroa leitei Monteiro
* Monteiroa ptarmicifolia (A.St.-Hil. & Naudin) Krapov.
* Monteiroa reitzii Krapov.
* Monteiroa smithii Krapov.
* Monteiroa triangularifolia Krapov.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Monteiroa Krapov. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295047-2.
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.

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