Bognera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The single species that makes up the genus is Bognera recondita. The word recondita means "hidden" referring to the fact that the plant is only found in remote areas of Amazonian Brazil near the Peruvian border. The species was discovered in the late 1970s and was originally placed in the genus Ulearum, as Ulearum reconditum Madison, Aroideana 3: 101 (1980).[1]
| Bognera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Subfamily: | Aroideae |
| Tribe: | Dieffenbachieae |
| Genus: | Bognera S.Mayo & D.Nicolson |
| Species: | B. recondita
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| Binomial name | |
| Bognera recondita (Madison) S.Mayo & Nicolson
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In 1984, a new genus was created in Taxon vol.33 on page 690,[2] and Bognera was named after the German Aroid specialist Josef Bogner (b. 1939), who was a botanist, director of the botanical garden in Munich and a specialist in Araceae.[3]
Bognera is believed to be closely related to Dieffenbachia.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Bognera recondita (Madison) Mayo & Nicolson | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ "Bognera Mayo & Nicolson | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Brown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.
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