Pranceacanthus
Species of plants
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Pranceacanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Pranceacanthus coccineus Wassh.[1]
| Pranceacanthus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Genus: | Pranceacanthus Wassh. (1984) |
| Species: | P. coccineus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pranceacanthus coccineus Wassh. (1984) | |
It is native to Bolivia and (northern and west central) Brazil.[1]
The genus name of Pranceacanthus is in honour of Ghillean Prance (b. 1937), a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae.[2] The Latin specific epithet of coccineus means scarlet and is derived from coccum..[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Brittonia Vol.36 on page 1 in 1984.[1]