Biology:Pisoniella

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Pisoniella
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Pisoniella
Standl.
Synonyms[1]
  • Boerhavia arborescens Lag. & Rodr.
  • (Lag. & Rodr.) Kuntze Pisonia arborescens

Pisoniella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Nyctaginaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Pisoniella arborescens (Lag. & Rodr.) Standl.[1]

It is native to (northwestern) Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico.[1]

The genus name of Pisoniella is in honour of Willem Piso (1611–1678), a Dutch physician and naturalist who participated as an expedition doctor in Dutch Brazil from 1637 – 1644.[3] The Latin specific epithet of arborescens refers to arboreus meaning tree-like.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. Vol.13 on page 385 in 1911.[1]

it has one known subspecies; Pisoniella arborescens var. glabrata (Heimerl) Heimerl from Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. [5]

References

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