Tateanthus Explained

Tateanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.^[1] It only contains one known species, Tateanthus duidae

It is native to northern Brazil and Venezuela.

The genus name of Tateanthus is in honour of George Henry Hamilton Tate (1894–1953), an English-born American zoologist and botanist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.^[2] The Latin specific epithet of duidae refers to Cerro Duida (or Mount Duida).^[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.58 on page 424 in 1931.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tateanthus Gleason Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 17 March 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 . 187926901 . 1 January 2021.
3. Jobling, J.A. (2010). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, Bloomsbury Publishing