Monrosia pterolopha
Species of flowering plant
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Monrosia pterolopha is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is a subshrub native to Catamarca, La Rioja, and San Juan provinces of northwestern Argentina, where it grows in subalpine areas of the Andes.[1]
| Monrosia pterolopha | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Polygalaceae |
| Genus: | Monrosia |
| Species: | M. pterolopha |
| Binomial name | |
| Monrosia pterolopha (Chodat) Grondona | |
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The species was first described as Polygala pterolopha by Robert Hippolyte Chodat in 1893. In 1949 Eduardo M. Grondona placed it in the newly-described genus Monrosia.[1]
