Nouhuysia
Appearance
Nouhuysia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Clusiaceae |
Genus: | Nouhuysia Lauterb. (1912) |
Species[1] | |
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Synonyms[1] | |
Idenburgia Gibbs (1917) |
Nouhuysia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae. It includes three species endemic to New Guinea.[1]
- Nouhuysia elaeocarpoides (Gilg & Schltr.) Steenis & Hatus.
- Nouhuysia novoguineensis (Gibbs) Steenis & Hatus.
- Nouhuysia pachyphylla (Gilg & Schltr.) Steenis & Hatus.
The genus was described by Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach in 1912, and named after Jan Willem van Nouhuys (1869–1963), a Dutch naval officer and seafarer and director at two museums in Rotterdam who collected plants in New Guinea.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Nouhuysia Lauterb. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved January 1, 2021. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for license.