Neomortonia Explained

Neomortonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae.[1] It just contains one species, Neomortonia rosea Wiehler [2]

Its native range is Costa Rica to Ecuador. It is also found in Colombia and Panamá.

The genus name of Neomortonia is in honour of Conrad Vernon Morton (1905–1972), an American botanist who did notable writings on Ferns. He was also a specialist in Gesneriaceae and Solanaceae for the Smithsonian Institution from 1928.[3] The Latin specific epithet of rosea refers to being rose-like.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Selbyana Vol.1 on page 17 in 1975.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Neomortonia Wiehler Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 18 May 2021 . en.
  2. Web site: Neomortonia rosea Wiehler Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 3 November 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. Web site: A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin . www.mobot.org . 3 November 2021.

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