Pankycodon
Genus of flowering plants
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Pankycodon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae. It includes a single species, Pankycodon purpureus, a perennial native to the Himalayas and western Yunnan.[1]
| Pankycodon | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
| Genus: | Pankycodon D.Y.Hong & X.T.Ma |
| Species: | P. purpureus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pankycodon purpureus (Wall.) D.Y.Hong & X.T.Ma | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pankycodon is named after botanist Pan Kai-Yu (1937-), who is the wife of Prof. Hong De-Yuan, one of the authors of the article that introduced by the genus.[2][3][4]