Setchellanthus

{{Short description|Family of shrubs}} {{speciesbox |image = |grandparent_authority = Iltis |genus = Setchellanthus |parent_authority = Brandegee |species = caeruleus |authority = Brandegee }} '''''Setchellanthus caeruleus''''' is a species of pungent shrub with large blue flowers. It is placed alone in the genus '''''Setchellanthus''''', which is in turn, is placed alone in the family '''Setchellanthaceae'''. It is endemic to Mexico.<ref name="Powo">{{cite web |title=''Setchellanthus'' Brandegee {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:297770-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

The genus and the species were circumscribed by Townshend Stith Brandegee in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. vol.3 on page 378 in 1909.<ref name="Powo"/>

The genus name of ''Setchellanthus'' is in honour of William Albert Setchell (1864–1943), who was an American botanist and marine phycologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he headed the Botany Department.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> The specific epithet ''caeruleus'' is the Latin for "blue".<ref>D. Gledhill {{Google books|NJ6PyhVuecwC|The Names of Plants|page=119}}</ref>

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==External links== * http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/brassicalesweb.htm#Setchellanthaceae * [http://www.lacistemataceae.org/setchellanthaceae.html Neotropical Plant Families Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004112343/http://www.lacistemataceae.org/setchellanthaceae.html |date=2011-10-04 }}

Category:Endemic flora of Mexico Category:Monotypic Brassicales genera Category:Brassicales