# Pombalia > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pombalia > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pombalia.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pombalia > Source revision: 1292715497 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Pombalia glabra 151912035.jpg |image_caption = ''Pombalia glabra'' |taxon = Pombalia |authority = [Vand.](/source/Vand.) |synonyms = ''Solea'' {{small|Spreng.}} }} '''''Pombalia''''' Vand. is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s belonging to the family [Violaceae](/source/Violaceae).{{cite web |title=''Pombalia'' Vand. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:41579-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=23 May 2021 |language=en}} Its native range is the tropical and subtropical parts of Central and South America, [Mexico](/source/Mexico) and the American states of [Arizona](/source/Arizona), [Colorado](/source/Colorado), [Kansas](/source/Kansas), [New Mexico](/source/New_Mexico), [Oklahoma](/source/Oklahoma) and [Texas](/source/Texas). It has been introduced to [Florida](/source/Florida), [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)), [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey), [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina) (in the USA), [KwaZulu-Natal](/source/KwaZulu-Natal) (South Africa) and [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam) (in Asia). The genus name of ''Pombalia'' is in honour of [Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal](/source/Sebasti%C3%A3o_Jos%C3%A9_de_Carvalho_e_Melo%2C_1st_Marquis_of_Pombal) (1699–1782), a Portuguese statesman and diplomat who effectively ruled the [Portuguese Empire](/source/Portuguese_Empire) from 1750 to 1777 as chief minister to King [Joseph I](/source/Joseph_I_of_Portugal).{{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 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}} It was first described and published in ''Fasciculus Plantarum cum novis generibus et speciebus. Olisipone''{{cite web |title=International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/?q=publication%3AFasc.%20Pl. |website=www.ipni.org |access-date=18 November 2021}} (Fasc. Pl.) on page 7 in 1771. ==Known species== According to Kew;{{Cite journal|last1=Paula-Souza|first1=Juliana|last2=Ballard, Jr.|first2=Harvey Eugene|date=2014-10-15|title=Re-establishment of the name Pombalia, and new combinations from the polyphyletic Hybanthus (Violaceae) |url=https://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.183.1.1|journal=Phytotaxa|volume=183|issue=1|pages=1|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.183.1.1|issn=1179-3163|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last1=Paula-Souza|first1=J.|last2=Lima|first2=A. G.|last3=Souza|first3=V. C.|title=The Violets of the Brazilian Savanna: A Revision of the Pombalia Lanata Complex (Violaceae), with Descriptions of Two New Species|date=2021-04-07|url=https://journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb/article/view/357|journal=Edinburgh Journal of Botany|language=en|volume=78|pages=1–32|doi=10.24823/EJB.2021.357|s2cid=236758841|issn=1474-0036|doi-access=free}} {{Linked species list |Pombalia arenaria| (Ule) Paula-Souza |Pombalia atropurpurea| (A.St.-Hil.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia attenuata| (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia barbata| Paula-Souza |Pombalia bicolor| (A.St.-Hil.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia bigibbosa| (A.St.-Hil.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia brevicaulis|(Mart.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia brevis| (Dowell) Paula-Souza |Pombalia calceolaria| (L.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia chodatii| (Hassl.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia communis| (A.St.-Hil.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia cristalina| Paula-Souza |Pombalia glabra| (Dowell) Paula-Souza |Pombalia glauca| (Chodat) Paula-Souza |Pombalia graminifolia| (Chodat) Paula-Souza |Pombalia hassleriana| (Chodat) Paula-Souza |Pombalia hespericliva| (H.E.Ballard & al.) H.E.Ballard & Paula-Souza |Pombalia heterosepala| (Eichler) Paula-Souza |Pombalia hieronymi| (Griseb.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia insignis| Paula-Souza |Pombalia jefensis| (Todzia) H.E.Ballard & Paula-Souza |Pombalia lanata| (A.St.-Hil.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia lehmannii| (Hieron.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia leucopogon| (Sparre) Paula-Souza |Pombalia linearifolia| (Vahl) Paula-Souza |Pombalia longistyla| (Schulze-Menz) Paula-Souza |Pombalia oppositifolia| (L.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia paraguariensis| (Chodat) Paula-Souza |Pombalia parviflora| (Mutis ex L.f.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia phyllanthoides| (Planch. & Linden) Paula-Souza |Pombalia poaya| (A.St.-Hil.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia potosina| (Morton) Paula-Souza |Pombalia prunifolia| (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia rivalis| (Arech.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia serrata| (Phil.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia setigera| (A.St.-Hil.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia sprucei| (Eichler) Paula-Souza |Pombalia strigoides| (Taub.) Paula-Souza |Pombalia sylvicola| (Standl. & Steyerm.) H.E.Ballard & Paula-Souza |Pombalia velutina| (Schulze-Menz) Paula-Souza |Pombalia verbenacea| (Kunth) Paula-Souza |Pombalia verrucosa| (Paula-Souza) Paula-Souza |Pombalia verticillata| (Ortega) Paula-Souza |Pombalia wrightii| (Urb.) H.E.Ballard & Paula-Souza }} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q37614651}} Category:Violaceae Category:Violaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1771 Category:Flora of the Americas --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Pombalia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pombalia) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pombalia?action=history)). 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