Rusbya

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Ericaceae
Subfamilia: Vaccinioideae
Tribus: Vaccinieae
Genus: Rusbya
Species: R. taxifolia
Name

Rusbya Britton Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 20(2): 68 (1893).

Type species: non designatus

References

Britton, N.L. 1893. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 20(2): 68.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Rusbya. Published online. Accessed: May 14 2016.
Tropicos.org 2016. Rusbya. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 May 14.

Rusbya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Rusbya taxifolia Britton [1]

It is native to Bolivia.[1]

The genus name of Rusbya is in honour of Henry Hurd Rusby (1855–1940), an American botanist, pharmacist and explorer.[2] The Latin specific epithet of taxifolia is from Latin taxus, meaning 'yew', and folium, meaning 'leaf': i.e., 'yew-leaved'.[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.20 on pages 67-68 in 1893.[1]
References

"Rusbya Britton | 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.
Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.