Mansoa (plant) explained
Mansoa is a genus of tropical, flowering vines in the family Bignoniaceae.[1]
Its native range is Mexico to Tropical America, and it is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela and Windward Is.
The genus name of Mansoa is in honour of Antônio Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso (1788–1848), a Brazilian botanist, physician, and politician.[2] It was first described and published in Biblioth. Universelle Genève, sér.2, Vol.17 on page 128 in 1838.[1]
Known species
According to Kew;
Further reading
- Lohmann . Lúcia G. . 2006 . Untangling the phylogeny of neotropical lianas (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae) . . 93 . 2 . 304 - 18 . . 10.3732/ajb.93.2.304 . 21646191.
Notes and References
- Web site: Mansoa DC. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 23 October 2021 . en.
- 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.
