| Vailia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Subfamily: | Asclepiadoideae |
| Tribe: | Asclepiadeae |
| Genus: | Vailia Rusby |
| Species: | V. mucronata
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| Binomial name | |
| Vailia mucronata Rusby
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| Synonyms1 | |
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Vailia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It just contains one species, Vailia mucronata Rusby.12
It is native to Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.2
The genus name of Vailia is in honour of Anna Murray Vail (1863–1955), an American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden.3 The Latin specific epithet of mucronata means sharp-edged, from mucro, sword-point or edge.4 Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.25 on page 500 in 1898.12
References
References
- "Vailia mucronata Rusby". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- "Vailia Rusby | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- 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 978-1845337315.