Thawatchaia

Thawatchaia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Podostemaceae
Genus:	Thawatchaia; M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita

Thawatchaia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Podostemaceae.

The genus name of Thawatchaia is in honour of Thawatchai Santisuk (b. 1944), a Thai herbarium director in Bangkok, and also, Thawatchai Wongprasert (fl. 2000), a plant collector. It was first described and published in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. Vol.55 on page 66 in 2004.

It is native range to Thailand and Laos.

Known species

Accepted by Kew:

Thawatchaia laotica Koi & M.Kato
Thawatchaia trilobata M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita

References

1 2 3 4 "Thawatchaia M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

[POWO-1] 1 2 3 4 "Thawatchaia M.Kato, Koi & Y.Kita | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 March 2021.

[2] Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.