Votschia
Species of flowering plants
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Votschia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Primulaceae. It only contains one known species, Votschia nemophila.[1] It is also in the Theophrastoideae subfamily.[2]
| Votschia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Primulaceae |
| Subfamily: | Theophrastoideae |
| Genus: | Votschia B.Ståhl |
| Species: | V. nemophila |
| Binomial name | |
| Votschia nemophila (Pittier) B.Ståhl | |
| Synonyms | |
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Jacquinia nemophila Pittier | |
The genus name of Votschia is in honour of Oskar Hermann Wilhelm Votsch (1879–1927), a German botanist and teacher in Delitzsch, Germany.[3] The Latin specific epithet of nemophila means "woodland-loving". It comes from the Latin word nemus, which means "grove" or "wooded glade", and the Greek word philos, which means "loving".[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Brittonia Vol.45 on page 204–205 in 1993.[1]