Kudoacanthus

Kudoacanthus is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It contains a single species, Kudoacanthus albonervosus. It is endemic to Taiwan.

Kudoacanthus
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Kudoacanthus

Hosok.
Species:
K. albonervosus
Binomial name
Kudoacanthus albonervosus
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When published the epithet of the name was written as "albo-nervosa". However, according to ICBN (Vienna Code), there are two errors in it that should be corrected. The hyphen should be dropped and the gender be consistent with the genus name which, with "Acanthus" as the last part, is masculine.

References

  1. China Plant Specialist Group 2004. Kudoacanthus albo-nervosa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.


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