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Quisumbingia

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Quisumbingia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Gentianales
Family:
Apocynaceae
Subfamily:
Asclepiadoideae
Genus:
Quisumbingia

Merr. 1936
Binomial name
Quisumbingia merrillii
(Schltr.) Merr.
Synonyms

Quisumbingia is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1915. It was initially given the name Petalonema, but this turned out to be an illegitimate homonym. In other words, someone else had already used the name for a very different species, in this case a cyanobacterium (formerly known as blue-green alga). So another name had to be chosen.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Quisumbingia merrillii , endemic to the Philippines.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1915. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 13: 544
  2. ^ Merrill, Elmer Drew. 1936. Philippine Journal of Science 60: 33
  3. ^ The Plant List.
  4. ^ Tropicos
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