Velascoa

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Crossosomatales

Familia: Crossosomataceae
Genus: Velascoa
Species: V. recondita
Name

Velascoa Calderón & Rzed., Acta Bot. Mex. 39: 54. (1997)

Type species: Velascoa recondita Calderón & Rzed., Acta Bot. Mex. 39: 54, fig. (1997)
monotypic taxon

References

Calderón, G. & Rzedowski, J. 1997. Acta Botanica Mexicana 39: 54.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Velascoa in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 July 10. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. Velascoa. 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. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 July 10. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Velascoa. Published online. Accessed: July 10 2021.

Velascoa is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Crossosomataceae. It only contains one known species, 'Velascoa recondita' Calderón & Rzed. [1]

It is native to north-eastern Mexico.[1]

The genus name of Velascoa is in honour of José María Velasco Gómez (1840–1912), a Mexican painter, polymath and naturalist.[2] The Latin specific epithet of recondita means remote as derived from the Spanish word recóndito.[3] It was first described and published in Acta Bot. Mex. Vol.39 on page 54 in 1997.[1][4]

References

"Velascoa' Calderón & Rzed. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 March 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.
Calderon, Graciela; Rzedowski, Jerzy (1997). "Velascoa (Crossosomataceae), a new genus from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico". Acta Botanica Mexicana. 39. doi:10.21829/abm39.1997.776.