Vailia
Species of flowering plant
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Vailia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It just contains one species, Vailia mucronata Rusby.[1][2]
| Vailia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Subfamily: | Asclepiadoideae |
| Tribe: | Asclepiadeae |
| Genus: | Vailia Rusby |
| Species: | V. mucronata |
| Binomial name | |
| Vailia mucronata Rusby | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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It is native to Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.[2]
The genus name of Vailia is in honour of Anna Murray Vail (1863–1955), an American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden.[3] The Latin specific epithet of mucronata means sharp-edged, from mucro, sword-point or edge.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.25 on page 500 in 1898.[1][2]