Tourrettia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Tourrettia lappacea (Bignoniaceae) (32270831381).jpg |image_caption =Tourrettia lappacea |taxon = Tourrettia |authority = Foug. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=Species>{{cite POWO |id=111357-1 |title=''Tourrettia lappacea'' (L'Hér.) Willd. |access-date=30 December 2021}}</ref> |synonyms = {{species list |Dombeya lappacea |L'Hér. |Tourrettia dombeya |Schreb. ex Forsyth f. |Tourrettia volubilis |J.F.Gmel. }} }} '''''Tourrettia''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Tourrettia'' Foug. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332024-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It only contains one known species, ''Tourrettia lappacea'' <small>(L'Hér.) Willd.</small><ref name="POWO" /><ref name=Species/> The genus of ''Tourrettia'' has 2 known synonyms, ''Dombeya'' {{small|L'Hér.}} and ''Medica'' {{small|Cothen.}}<ref name="POWO" /> It is also in Tribe ''Tourrettieae''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gentry |first1=Alwyn H. |title=Part I (Crescentieae and Tourrettieae) |journal=Flora Neotropica |date=19 September 1980 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=1–130}}</ref>

Its native range stretches from Mexico down to north-western Argentina. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru and Venezuela.<ref name="POWO" />

The genus name of ''Tourrettia'' is in honour of Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette (1729–1793), a French botanist.<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 ''lappacea'' is derived from ''lappa'' meaning with burrs.<ref>{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}</ref> It was first described and published in Mém. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 1784 on page 205 in 1787.<ref name="POWO"/> The species was published in Sp. Pl. edition 4 Vol.3 on page 263 in 1800.<ref name=Species/>

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Category:Bignoniaceae Category:Bignoniaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1787 Category:Flora of Southeastern Mexico Category:Flora of Central America Category:Flora of Venezuela Category:Flora of western South America Category:Flora of Northwest Argentina