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genus Cottendorfia Schult. & Schult.f.

(subfam. Navioideae)

Publ: Syst. Veg. 7(2): 64, 1193 (1830)

Type: Cottendorfia florida Schultes filius in Roemer & Schultes, Syst. 7(2): 1193, 1830

Number of species: 1

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Genus Notes:

in Roem. & Schult., Syst. veg. 7(2): lxiv, 1193. Oct-Dec 1830.
Type Cottendorfia florida Schult. & Schult.f. in Roem. & Schult., Syst. veg. 7(2): lxiv, 1193. Oct-Dec 1830. Currently recognized as a monospecific genus in the subfam. Pitcairnioideae. Named in honor of German patron of the sciences, Johann Georg Cotta von Cottendorf (1796-1863). “Diximus in honorem Lib. Bar. Cotta de Cottendorf, ppll. Ord. Commend. etc., Membri Soc. Bot. Ratisb., ob eximia, quae Agriculturae patriae suae reddidit, beneficia prudentissimus Botanophilus.” [Named in honor of Lib. Bar. Cotta von Cottendorf, ppll. Ord. Commend. etc., member of the Botanical Society of Ratisbon [Regensburg, Germany], the most wise botanist, on account of the outstanding agricultural things he has given back to his country.]
(from Grant & Zijlstra 1998)