Guiraoa Explained

Guiraoa is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.[1] It only contains one species, Guiraoa arvensis Coss. [2]

It is native to Spain.

The genus name of Guiraoa is in honour of Ángel Guirao y Navarro (1817–1890), Spanish doctor, naturalist and politician from Murcia who discovered this plant.[3] The Latin specific epithet of arvensis refers to arvum of ploughed fields or ploughed land.[4] It was first described and published in Notes Pl. Crit. on page 98 in 1851.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Guiraoa Coss. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 22 May 2021 . en.
  2. Web site: Guiraoa arvensis Coss. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 17 September 2021 . en.
  3. 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.
  4. Book: Lewis, Charlton . An Elementary Latin Dictionary . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 1891 . 9780199102051.

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