Thawatchaia
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| Thawatchaia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Podostemaceae |
| Genus: | Thawatchaia M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita |
Thawatchaia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Podostemaceae.[1]
The genus name of Thawatchaia is in honour of Thawatchai Santisuk (b. 1944), a Thai herbarium director in Bangkok, and also, Thawatchai Wongprasert (fl. 2000), a plant collector.[2] It was first described and published in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. Vol.55 on page 66 in 2004.[1]