Atropa_indobelladonna

<i>Atropa indobelladonna</i>

Atropa indobelladonna

Genus of plants

Atropa indobelladonna is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Solanaceae. It is native to the state of Arunachal Pradesh in the eastern Himalayas of India.[1]

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The species was first described in 1965 and placed in the monotypic genus Pauia as Pauia belladonna, published in Indian Forester Vol.91 on page 363.[1] The name Pauia was in honour of Hermenegild Santapau (1903–1970), a Spanish born naturalized Indian Jesuit priest and botanist,.[2] The Latin specific epithet of belladonna refers Atropa belladonna (or commonly known as 'deadly nightshade'), another Solanaceae family member. The species was reclassfied into genus Atropa as Atropa indobelladonna in 2020.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "Atropa indobelladonna Karthik. & V.S.Kumar | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  2. [2]
    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.
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