Votschia | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Primulaceae |
Subfamily: | Theophrastoideae |
Genus: |
Votschia B.Ståhl |
Species: | V. nemophila
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Binomial name | |
Votschia nemophila (Pittier) B.Ståhl
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Synonyms | |
Jacquinia nemophila Pittier |
Votschia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Primulaceae. It only contains one known species, Votschia nemophila. [1] It is also in the Theophrastoideae subfamily. [2]
The genus name of Votschia is in honour of Oskar Hermann Wilhelm Votsch (1879–1927), a German botanist and teacher in Delitzsch, Germany. [3] The Latin specific epithet of nemophila means "woodland-loving". It comes from the Latin word nemus, which means "grove" or "wooded glade", and the Greek word philos, which means "loving". [4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Brittonia Vol.45 on page 204–205 in 1993. [1]