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Pachycaulos
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Subfamily: Gesnerioideae
Genus: Pachycaulos
J.L.Clark & J.F.Sm.

Pachycaulos is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae. It has two species, Pachycaulos nummularia [1] and Pachycaulos huancabambae [2]. Its native range is Southeastern Mexico to Peru. [1]

Taxonomy

The species was first described as Hypocyrta nummularia by Johannes von Hanstein in 1865. The epithet nummularia is a noun in apposition. In 2013, J.L. Clark and J.F. Smith moved it to their new genus Pachycaulos using the incorrect adjectival form of the epithet, nummularium, rather than the correct nummularia. [3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Pachycaulos J.L.Clark & J.F.Sm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  2. ^ Clark, John L.; Smith, James F.; Moonlight, Peter W. (2023-10-23). "Another Recently Recognized Monotypic Genus Is No Longer Monotypic: A Second Species of Pachycaulos (Gesneriaceae) from the Huancabamba Depression in Northern Peru". Systematic Botany. 48 (3): 410–418. doi: 10.1600/036364423X16936046516354.
  3. ^ "Pachycaulos nummularia (Hanst.) J.L.Clark & J.F.Sm". The International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2021-09-17.