Fortunearia
Genus of flowering plants
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Fortunearia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Hamamelidaceae. It just contains one species, Fortunearia sinensis Rehder & E.H.Wilson, a shrub or tree native to southern and north-central China.[1]
| Fortunearia | |
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| Fortunearia sinensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Hamamelidaceae |
| Tribe: | Eustigmateae |
| Genus: | Fortunearia Rehder & E.H.Wilson (1913) |
| Species: | F. sinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Fortunearia sinensis Rehder & E.H.Wilson (1913) | |
Its genus name is in honour of Robert Fortune (1812–1880), Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller in Asia,[2] and the specific epithet sinensis means "from China".[3]
It was first described and published in Plantae Wilsonianae Vol.1 on page 427 in 1913.[1]