Krukoviella Explained

Krukoviella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ochnaceae. It has one synonym Planchonella .^[1] The only species is Krukoviella disticha ^[2]

Its native range is Peru and northern Brazil.

The genus name of Krukoviella is in honour of Boris Alexander Krukoff (1898–1983), a Russian-born American botanist who collected in South America, West Africa and Sumatra. He was later a curator at the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden.^[3] The Latin specific epithet of disticha refers to distichus a Greek word meaning alternately opposed or in two ranks.^[4] The genus was first published in J. Arnold Arbor. Vol.20 on page 295 in 1939,^[1] and the species was first published in Torreya Vol.45 on page 71 in 1945.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Krukoviella A.C.Sm. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 27 May 2021 . en.
2. Web site: Krukoviella disticha (Tiegh.) Dwyer Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 11 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 . 1 January 2021.
4. Book: Coombes, Allen . The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants . Timber Press . 23 . Portland, Oregon . 2012 . 9781604691962 .