Wilbrandia Explained

Wilbrandia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae.^[1] It is also in Tribe Coniandreae.

It is native to Brazil, Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina.

Known species

As accepted by Plants of the World Online:

The genus name of Wilbrandia is in honour of Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846), a German anatomist and naturalist. He was a proponent of Naturphilosophie.^[2] It was first described and published in Enum. Subst. Braz. page 30 in 1836.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wilbrandia Silva Manso Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 13 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 . 1 January 2021.