Rivasgodaya | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Genus: | Rivasgodaya Esteve (1973) |
Species: | R. nervosa
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Binomial name | |
Rivasgodaya nervosa Esteve (1973)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Teline nervosa (Esteve) A.Hansen & Sunding (1979) |
Rivasgodaya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the legume family, Fabaceae. It just contains one species, Rivasgodaya nervosa.[2]
It is native to the Canary Islands.[2]
The genus name of Rivasgodaya is in honour of Salvador Rivas Goday (1905–1981), a Spanish botanist and plant geographer, professor of pharmacy in Madrid.[3] The Latin specific epithet of nervosa means veined, originally from nervus.[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Trab. Dept. Bot. Univ. Granada Vol.2 on pages 81-82 in 1973.[2]
It is also thought to be a synonym for Teline nervosa.[5]