Wilbrandia

Wilbrandia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily:	Cucurbitoideae
Tribe:	Coniandreae
Genus:	Wilbrandia; Silva Manso

Wilbrandia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae. It is also in Tribe Coniandreae.

It is native to Brazil, Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina.

Known species

As accepted by Plants of the World Online:

The genus name of Wilbrandia is in honour of Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846), a German anatomist and naturalist. He was a proponent of Naturphilosophie. It was first described and published in Enum. Subst. Braz. page 30 in 1836.

References

1 2 3 4 "Wilbrandia Silva Manso | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

[POWO-1] 1 2 3 4 "Wilbrandia Silva Manso | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.