Monteiroa (plant) explained

Monteiroa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.^[1]

Its native range is south-eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina.

The genus name of Monteiroa is in honour of Honório da Costa Monteiro Filho (1900–1978), a Brazilian professor of botany and director of the national school of agriculture in Rio de Janeiro and was a specialist in Malvaceae.^[2] It was first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.3 on page 237 in 1951.^[1]

Species

According to Kew:

• Monteiroa bullata
• Monteiroa catharinensis
• Monteiroa dusenii
• Monteiroa glomerata
• Monteiroa hatschbachii
• Monteiroa leitei
• Monteiroa ptarmicifolia
• Monteiroa reitzii
• Monteiroa smithii
• Monteiroa triangularifolia

Notes and References

1. Web site: Monteiroa Krapov. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 18 May 2021 . en.
2. 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.