Recordia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Verbenaceae
Tribus: Duranteae
Genus: Recordia
Species: R. boliviana – R. reitzii
Name

Recordia Moldenke Phytologia 1: 99. (1934)

Type species: Recordia boliviana Moldenke Phytologia 1: 99–101. (1934)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Verbenoxylum Tronc., Darwiniana 16: 622 (1971).

References

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Recordia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 July 17. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2014. Recordia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2014 Nov. 1.
International Plant Names Index. 2014. Recordia. Published online. Accessed: 16 June 2014.

Recordia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Verbenaceae.[1]

It is native to Bolivia and southern Brazil.[1]

The genus name of Recordia is in honour of Samuel J. Record (1881–1945), an American botanist who played a prominent role in the study of trees and wood.[2] It was first described and published in Phytologia Vol.1 on page 99 in 1934.[1]

Known species, according to Kew:[1]

Recordia boliviana Moldenke
Recordia reitzii (Moldenke) Thode & O'Leary

References

"Recordia Moldenke | 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.