Neomortonia: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Gesneriaceae
Genus
Neomortonia
Species
Scientific Name
Neomortonia

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Neomortonia

Neomortonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae. It just contains one species, Neomortonia rosea Wiehler

Its native range is Costa Rica to Ecuador. It is also found in Colombia and Panama.

The genus name of Neomortonia is in honour of Conrad Vernon Morton (1905–1972), an American botanist who did notable writings on Ferns. He was also a specialist in Gesneriaceae and Solanaceae for the Smithsonian Institution from 1928. The Latin specific epithet of rosea refers to being rose-like. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Selbyana Vol.1 on page 17 in 1975.

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