Vellosiella | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Orobanchaceae |
Genus: |
Vellosiella Baill. |
Vellosiella is a genus of hemiparasitic (a parasite under natural conditions, but remains photosynthetic to at least some degree) flowering plants belonging to the family Orobanchaceae. [1]
It is native to Guyana and Venezuela in northern South America and southern parts of Brazil. [1]
As accepted by Kew: [1]
The genus name of Vellosiella is in honour of José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo (1742–1811), a Colonial Brazilian botanist who catalogued many specimens. [2] It was first described and published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris Vol.1 n page 715 in 1888. [1]