Pisoniella
Species of flowering plant
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Pisoniella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Nyctaginaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Pisoniella arborescens (Lag. & Rodr.) Standl.[1]
| Pisoniella | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Nyctaginaceae |
| Genus: | Pisoniella Standl. |
| Species: | P. arborescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Pisoniella arborescens (Lag. & Rodr.) Standl. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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It is native to (northwestern) Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico.[1]
The genus name of Pisoniella is in honour of Willem Piso (1611–1678), a Dutch physician and naturalist who participated as an expedition doctor in Dutch Brazil from 1637 – 1644.[3] The Latin specific epithet of arborescens refers to arboreus meaning tree-like.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. Vol.13 on page 385 in 1911.[1]
it has one known subspecies; Pisoniella arborescens var. glabrata (Heimerl) Heimerl from Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. [5]