Aloysia

Translingual

Etymology

Catalan botanist Antoni Palau i Verdera / Antonio Palau y Verdera described the type species, a novelty in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid opened in 1781 near the National Museum of Natural Sciences, in his Parte práctica de Botánica Part I (1784) page 767–771 to honour then Crown Princess of Spain Maria Luisa of Parma.

Proper noun

Aloysia f

A taxonomic genus within the family Verbenaceae – beebrush.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Verbenaceae - family; Lantaneae - tribe

Hyponyms

(genus): Aloysia citrodora - type species

References

Aloysia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aloysia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aloysia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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