Somrania Explained

Somrania is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae.[1]

It is native to Thailand.

The genus name of Somrania is in honour of Somran Suddee (fl. 1998),[2] a Thai plant collector and botanist who worked at the Forest Herbarium in Bangkok in Thailand.[3] It was first described and published in Thai Forest Bull., Bot. Vol.40 on page 10 in 2012.[1]

Known species

According to Kew:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Somrania D.J.Middleton Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 19 May 2021 . en.
  2. Web site: Suddee, Somran International Plant Names Index . www.ipni.org . 17 December 2021.
  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.