Parishia Explained

Parishia is an Asian plant genus in the family Anacardiaceae, subfamily Anacardioideae. It is found in Indo-China and Malesia; no subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. It was named in 1860, by Joseph Dalton Hooker, in honour of the botanist and plant collector Charles Samuel Pollock Parish.[1]

The type species is P. insignis, the first specimens of which were collected by Parish in the Andaman Islands.

Species

The Catalogue of Life lists:

References

  1. Web site: C.S.P. Parish and the orchids of Burma . . 26 December 2021.

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