Marcgraviastrum sodiroi
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Marcgraviastrum sodiroi is a species of plant in the Marcgraviaceae family endemic to Colombia and Ecuador.[2]
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Marcgraviastrum sodiroi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Marcgraviaceae |
Genus: | Marcgraviastrum |
Species: | M. sodiroi |
Binomial name | |
Marcgraviastrum sodiroi (Gilg) Bedell ex S.Dressler | |
Synonyms | |
Norantea sodiroi Gilg in Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 78: 14 (1904) |
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Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.[1]
It was first published in Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 955 in 1999.[2]
The specific epithet of sodiroi refers to Luis Sodiro (1836–1909), who was an Italian Jesuit priest and a field botanist, who collected many plants in Ecuador.[3]