Darcya Explained

Darcya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.^[1]

Its native range is Costa Rica to Colombia.

The genus name of Darcya is in honour of William Gerald D'Arcy (1931–1999), Canadian-born American botanist at the Missouri Botanical Garden,^[2] and was published in Phytologia Vol.74 on page 268 in 1993.

Species known according to Kew;

• Darcya costaricensis
• Darcya mutisii
• Darcya reliquiarum

Notes and References

1. Web site: Darcya B.L.Turner & C.P.Cowan Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 21 March 2021 . en.
2. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 1 January 2021.