Pitraea

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Pitraea

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Verbenaceae
Genus:  | Pitraea
Turcz.
Synonyms[1]

* Bouchea copiapensis Gay Castelia cuneato-ovata
* Phelloderma cuneato-ovata Priva cuneato-ovata
* Verbena orchioides Walp.
* (Cav.) Rusby Verbena tuberosa
* (Cav.) Miers Priva laevis
* Juss. Cav.
* Pitraea chilensis Priva orchidioides
* Walp. Turcz.
* Verbena lobelioides Graham
* Graham

Pitraea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Verbenaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Pitraea cuneato-ovata (Cav.) Caro[1]

Its native range is southern South America. It is found in (north-eastern and north-western) Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, (central and northern) Chile and Peru.[1]

The genus name of Pitraea is in honour of Adolf Samoilovich Pitra (1830–1889), a Russian professor of botany in Kharkiv.[3] The genus has 2 known synonyms; Castelia Cav. and Phelloderma Miers.[2] The Latin specific epithet of cuneato-ovata is derived from cuneate meaning wedge-shaped and ovate from ovum meaning.[4] The genus was first described and published in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou Vol.35 (II) on page 328 in 1862.[2] Then the species was published in Kurtziana Vol.1 on page 274 in 1961.[1]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Pitraea cuneato-ovata (Cav.) Caro" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/864124-1.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Pitraea Turcz. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:41376-1.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.

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