{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | genus = Ivanjohnstonia | parent_authority = Kazmi | species = jaunsariensis | authority = Kazmi }} '''''Ivanjohnstonia''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Ivanjohnstonia'' Kazmi {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4626-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> The only species is '''''Ivanjohnstonia jaunsariensis''''' {{small|Kazmi}} <ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Ivanjohnstonia jaunsariensis'' Kazmi {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:117372-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=5 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Its native range is the Western Himalaya.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Ivanjohnstonia'' is in honour of Ivan Murray Johnston (1898–1960), an American botanist.<ref>{{cite book | last=Quattrocchi | first=Umberto | title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L | publisher=CRC Press | location=Boca Raton, Florida | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8493-2676-9}}</ref> and the Latin specific epithet of ''jaunsariensis'' refers to the Jaunsar-Bawar region in northern India. Both genus and species were first described and published in Sultania Vol.1 on page 1 in 1975.<ref name="POWO" />
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Category:Boraginoideae Category:Boraginaceae genera Category:Monotypic Boraginales genera Category:Plants described in 1845 Category:Flora of West Himalaya