Espadaea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Solanales

Familia: Solanaceae
Subfamilia: Goetzeoideae
Genus: Espadaea
Species: E. amoena
Name

Espadaea A.Rich., Hist. Fis. Cuba 11: 147. (1850)

monotypic taxon

References

Richard, A. 1850. Historia Fisica Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba 11: 147.
Hassler, M. 2019. Espadaea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 2. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Espadaea. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 2 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Espadaea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 2.

Espadaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. The only species is Espadaea amoena.[1]

It is native to Cuba.[1]

The genus name is in honour of Juan José Díaz de Espada (1757–1832), a Spanish bishop in Havana in Cuba,[2] and the Latin epithet of amoena means "beautiful" or "pleasing".[3] It was first described and published in R.de la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. Vol.11 on page 148 in 1850.[1]
References

"Espadaea A.Rich. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
Harrison, Lorraine (2012). Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226009193.