Lundinia

<i>Lundinia</i>

Lundinia

Species of flowering plant

Lundinia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Lundinia plumbea.[2]

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It is native to Cuba and the Dominican Republic.[2]

The genus name of Lundinia is in honour of Roger Lundin (1955–2005), a Swedish botanist at the natural history museum in Stockholm.[3] The Latin specific epithet of plumbea refers to plumbeus meaning leaden.[4]

The genus was first described and published in Compositae Newslett. Vol.44 on pages 64–66 in 2006.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Lundinia B.Nord. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Lundinia plumbea (Griseb.) B.Nord. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. [3]
    Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. [4]
    Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199102051.

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