Pauia

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: Solanoideae
Tribus: Hyoscyameae
Genus: Pauia
Species: P. belladonna
Name

Pauia Deb & R.M.Dutta, Indian Forester 91(6): 363. (1965)

monotypic taxon

References

Deb, D.B. & Dutta, R.M. 1965. Indian Forester 91: 363.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Pauia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Nov. 2. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Pauia. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 2 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Pauia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 2 Nov. 2020.

Pauia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Pauia belladonna Deb & Ratna Dutta [2]

It is native to the state of Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalaya in India.[2]

The genus name of Pauia is in honour of Hermenegild Santapau (1903–1970), a Spanish born naturalized Indian Jesuit priest and botanist,.[3] The Latin specific epithet of belladonna refers Atropa belladonna (or commonly known as 'deadly nightshade'), another Solanaceae family member. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Indian Forester Vol.91 on page 363 in 1965.[2]
References

"Pauia Deb & Ratna Dutta | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
"Pauia belladonna Deb & Ratna Dutta | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 November 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.