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Pranceacanthus
Species of plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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]
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