Thawatchaia Explained

Thawatchaia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Podostemaceae.^[1]

The genus name of Thawatchaia is in honour of Thawatchai Santisuk (b. 1944), a Thai herbarium director in Bangkok, and also, Thawatchai Wongprasert (fl. 2000), a plant collector.^[2] It was first described and published in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. Vol.55 on page 66 in 2004.^[1]

It is native range to Thailand and Laos.

Known species

Accepted by Kew:

• Thawatchaia laotica
• Thawatchaia trilobata

Notes and References

1. Web site: Thawatchaia M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita 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.