| Pauldopia | |
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| Pauldopia ghonta, Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Bignoniaceae |
| Genus: | Pauldopia Steenis |
| Synonyms1 | |
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Pauldopia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae.2 It only contains one known species, Pauldopia ghonta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) Steenis
Its native range is India to Indo-China. It is found in China, India, Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.1
The genus name of Pauldopia is in honour of Paul Louis Amans Dop (1876–1954), a French botanist who worked extensively in Indo-china.3 The Latin specific epithet of ghonta is a Bengalis word which means bell,4 alluding to the corolla shape of the flower.5 See also Ghanta. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Acta Bot. Neerl. Vol.18 on page 425-427 in 1969.1
References
References
- "Pauldopia ghonta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) Steenis". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- "Pauldopia Steenis | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 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.
- Syed Siraj ul Hassan The Castes and Tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Volume 1 (1989), p. 568, at Google Books
- "Stereospermum ghonta | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 9 November 2021.