Whitmorea

Species of flowering plant

Whitmorea

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Aquifoliales
Family:  | Stemonuraceae
Genus:  | Whitmorea
Sleumer
Species:  |

W. grandiflora

Binomial name
Whitmorea grandiflora

Sleumer

Whitmorea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Stemonuraceae. It only contains one known species, 'Whitmorea grandiflora' Sleumer [1]

It is native to the Solomon Islands.[1]

The genus name of Whitmorea is in honour of Timothy Charles Whitmore (1935–2002), an English ecologist, botanist, geologist and climatologist.[2] The Latin specific epithet of grandiflora means large flower from Grandis large and flora meaning flower.[3] Both the genus and the species wre first described and published in Blumea Vol.17 on pages 263-264 in 1969.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Whitmorea Sleumer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
3. ^ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.

Taxon identifiers

Whitmorea|

* Wikidata: Q21293621
* Wikispecies: Whitmorea
* GBIF: 7314431
* GRIN: 12824
* IPNI: 19910-1
* IRMNG: 1099514
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:19910-1
* Tropicos: 40026016
* WFO: wfo-4000040672

Whitmorea grandiflora|

* Wikidata: Q17252786
* GBIF: 3597226
* IPNI: 434683-1
* Plant List: kew-2466506
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:434683-1
* Tropicos: 100354876
* WFO: wfo-0000427892