Pauldopia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Pauldopia ghonta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) Steenis
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| Pauldopia ghonta, Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Bignoniaceae |
| Genus: | Pauldopia Steenis |
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Its native range is India to Indo-China. It is found in China, India, Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.[1]
The genus name of Pauldopia is in honour of Paul Louis Amans Dop (1876–1954), a French botanist who worked extensively in Indo-china.[3] The Latin specific epithet of ghonta is a Bengalis word which means bell,[4] alluding to the corolla shape of the flower.[5] See also Ghanta. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Acta Bot. Neerl. Vol.18 on page 425-427 in 1969.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Pauldopia ghonta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) Steenis". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ^ "Pauldopia Steenis | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 May 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.
- ^ Syed Siraj ul Hassan The Castes and Tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Volume 1 (1989), p. 568, at Google Books
- ^ "Stereospermum ghonta | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 9 November 2021.