Briggsiopsis
Genus of flowering plants
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Briggsiopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae. It contains only one known species, Briggsiopsis delavayi.[2]
| Briggsiopsis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Gesneriaceae |
| Genus: | Briggsiopsis K.Y.Pan (1985) |
| Species: | B. delavayi |
| Binomial name | |
| Briggsiopsis delavayi (Franch.) K.Y.Pan (1985) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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It is a perennial native to southern Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan, and Guizhou in south-central China.[1]
The species was first described as Didissandra delavayi by Adrien René Franchet in 1899. In 1985 Kai Yu Pan placed it in a new monotypic genus as Briggsiopsis delavayi.[1] The genus is named in honour of Munro Briggs Scott (1889–1917), a Scottish botanist and British officer who was killed in the First World War[3]