Plowmania

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: Petunioideae
Genus: Plowmania
Species: P. nyctaginoides
Name

Plowmania Hunz. & Subils, Kurtziana 18: 127. (1986)

monotypic taxon

References

Hunziker, A.T. & Subils, R. 1986. Kurtziana [Museo Botanico, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales] 18: 127.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Plowmania in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Oct. 29. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Plowmania. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 29 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Plowmania. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 29 Oct. 2020.

Plowmania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. The only species is Plowmania nyctaginoides.[2]

Fully hardy, fast-growing evergreen climber, stems up to 5 m (16.4 ft) long. It has 4-angled stems, pinnate leaves, up 7 cm (2.8 in) long. From spring to autumn, it produces racemes of tubular orange flowers, up to 2.5cm 2.5 cm (1.0 in) long.[3]

It is native to Mexico and Guatemala.[1] Growing on volcanic peaks at high-elevations.[3]

The genus name of Plowmania is in honour of Timothy Plowman (1944–1989), an American ethnobotanist best known for his intensive work over the course of 15 years on the genus Erythroxylum, and the cultivated coca species in particular.[4] The Latin specific epithet of nyctaginoides means resembling Nyctago, a synonym of the genus Mirabilis. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Kurtziana Vol.18 on page 127 in 1986.[1][2]
References

"Plowmania nyctaginoides (Standl.) Hunz". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
"Plowmania Hunz. & Subils | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
"Hortus Camdenensis | Plowmania nyctaginoides (Standl.) Hunz. & Subsils". hortuscamden.com. Retrieved 15 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.