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Marcetella
Genus of flowering plant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marcetella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae.[1]
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Marcetella moquiniana | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Rosaceae |
Genus: | Marcetella Svent. |
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It is native to the Canary Islands and Madeira within Macaronesia .[1]
The genus name of Marcetella is in honour of Adeodato Francisco Marcet (1875–1964), a Spanish clergyman, botanist and agronomist. Who also worked in a botanical garden in Blanes.[2] It was first described and published in Bol. Inst. Nac. Invest. Agron. Vol.18 (Issue 95) on page 263 in 1948.[1]