Marcgraviastrum sodiroi explained

Marcgraviastrum sodiroi is a species of plant in the Marcgraviaceae family endemic to Colombia and Ecuador.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It was first published in Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 955 in 1999.^[1]

The specific epithet of sodiroi refers to Luis Sodiro (1836–1909), who was an Italian Jesuit priest and a field botanist, who collected many plants in Ecuador.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Marcgraviastrum sodiroi (Gilg) Bedell ex S.Dressler Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 18 November 2023 . en.
2. Web site: Nursery . Lovato . Alejandro . David . Padre Luis Sodiro S. J .: Importance of his contribution to the knowledge of botany in Ecuador and its predecessors . 28 October 2023 . Spanish . 2018.