Jagrantia Explained

Jagrantia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae.[1] It only contains one species, Jagrantia monstrum.[2]

Its native range is south-eastern Nicaragua to northern Ecuador. It is found in the countries of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Panamá.

The genus name of Jagrantia is in honour of Jason Randall Grant (b. 1969), an American botanist in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and specialist in Bromeliaceae.[3] The Latin specific epithet of monstrum refers to monstrum meaning "a malfunctioning of nature". The word monster is derived from this term.[4] It was first described and published in Phytotaxa Vol.279 on pages 51-52 in 2016.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jagrantia Barfuss & W.Till Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 15 May 2021 . en.
  2. Web site: Jagrantia monstrum (Mez) Barfuss & W.Till Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 5 October 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 . 187926901 . 1 January 2021.
  4. Web site: A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin . www.mobot.org . 5 October 2021 . L. monstrum; like Latin, ‘signum,’ a sign in the heavens, a constellation, meteor” (Liddell & Scott).

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