Tateanthus
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| Tateanthus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Melastomataceae |
| Genus: | Tateanthus Gleason |
Tateanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Tateanthus duidae Gleason[1]
It is native to northern Brazil and Venezuela.[1]
The genus name of Tateanthus is in honour of George Henry Hamilton Tate (1894–1953), an English-born American zoologist and botanist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.[2] The Latin specific epithet of duidae refers to Cerro Duida (or Mount Duida).[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.58 on page 424 in 1931.[1]