Whitmorea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Stemonuraceae
Genus: Whitmorea
Species: W. grandiflora
Name

Whitmorea Sleumer Blumea 17: 263. (1969)

monotypic taxon

References

Sleumer, H.O. 1969. Blumea 17: 263.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Whitmorea. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 7 2016.
Kårehed, J. 2001. Multiple origin of the tropical forest tree family Icacinaceae. American Journal of Botany 88(12): 2259–2274. JSTOR DOI: 10.2307/3558388 Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2016. Whitmorea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 Oct. 7.
Utteridge, T.M.A. & Schori, M. 2011. Updating Malesian Icacinaceae. Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 63: 105–118. PDF Reference page.

Whitmorea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Stemonuraceae. It only contains one known species, 'Whitmorea grandiflora' Sleumer [1]

It is native to the Solomon Islands.[1]

The genus name of Whitmorea is in honour of Timothy Charles Whitmore (1935–2002), an English ecologist, botanist, geologist and climatologist.[2] The Latin specific epithet of grandiflora means large flower from Grandis large and flora meaning flower.[3] Both the genus and the species wre first described and published in Blumea Vol.17 on pages 263-264 in 1969.[1]
References

"Whitmorea Sleumer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 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.