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