Pinzona

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Dilleniales

Familia: Dilleniaceae
Genus: Pinzona
Species: P. coriacea
Name

Pinzona Mart. & Zucc., Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 1: 371. (1832)

monotypic taxon

References

Martius, C.F.P. von & Zuccarini, J.G. 1832. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1: 371.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Pinzona in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Mar. 9. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2020. Pinzona. 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. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Mar. 9. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Pinzona. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 9 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Pinzona. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Mar. 9.

Pinzona is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Dilleniaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Pinzona coriacea Mart. & Zucc.[1]

Its native range is Tropical America. It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (northern), Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, the Leeward Islands, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela and the Windward Islands.[1]

The genus name of Pinzona is in honour of Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (c. 1462 – after 1514), a Spanish navigator and explorer, the youngest of the Pinzón brothers. Along with his older brother, Martín Alonso Pinzón (c. 1441 – c. 1493), who captained the Pinta, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World, in 1492, as captain of the Niña.[3] The Latin specific epithet of coriacea means leather-like from corium.[4] Both the genus and the specied were first described and published in Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Vol.1 on page 371 (1829-1830, published in 1832).[1]

References

"Pinzona coriacea Mart. & Zucc". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
"Pinzona Mart. & Zucc. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 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.
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