Lundinia
| Lundinia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Senecioneae |
| Genus: | Lundinia B.Nord. |
| Species: | L. plumbea
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| Binomial name | |
| Lundinia plumbea | |
| Synonyms | |
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Senecio plumbeus Griseb. | |
Lundinia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Lundinia plumbea.[2]
It is native to Cuba and the Dominican Republic.[2]
The genus name of Lundinia is in honour of Roger Lundin (1955–2005), a Swedish botanist at the natural history museum in Stockholm.[3] The Latin specific epithet of plumbea refers to plumbeus meaning leaden.[4]
The genus was first described and published in Compositae Newslett. Vol.44 on pages 64–66 in 2006.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lundinia B.Nord. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ a b c "Lundinia plumbea (Griseb.) B.Nord. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199102051.