{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = Metternichia principis.jpg | image_caption = Illustration of ''Metternichia principis'' from Curtis's Botanical Magazine vol. 79 in 1853 | genus = Metternichia | parent_authority = J.C.Mikan | species = principis | authority = J.C.Mikan }} '''''Metternichia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Metternichia'' J.C.Mikan {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38452-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> For a long time the only species was '''''Metternichia principis''''' {{small|J.C.Mikan}}.,<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Metternichia principis'' J.C.Mikan {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:816811-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> but recently a second species, ''M. macrocalyx'' (Carvalho) L.S.de Souza was recognised. <ref>{{cite journal| last=de Souza | first=L.S | title=Revisiting ''Metternichia'' (Solanaceae) through an integrative approach: a monotypic genus? | journal=Systematic Botany | volume=48:419-434 | year=2023}}</ref>
It is native to eastern Brazil.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Metternichia'' is in honour of Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859), prince of Ochsenhausen, diplomat and Austrian painter and illustrator.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> The Latin specific epithet of ''principis'' is derived from ''princeps'' meaning foremost, but in this case refers to belonging to the prince.<ref>{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}</ref> Both the genus and species were first described and published by Johann Christian Mikan in Del. Fl. Faun. Bras. on table 13 in 1823.<ref name="POWO"/> from material collected near Sao Paulo and Copa Cabana. The second species occurs in drier habitat and was described by Carvalho in Solanaceae: Biol. & Syst. 12 (1986).
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Category:Solanaceae Category:Monotypic Solanaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1823 Category:Flora of Brazil