| Jagrantia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Bromeliaceae |
| Genus: | Jagrantia Barfuss & W.Till |
| Species: | J. monstrum |
| Binomial name | |
| Jagrantia monstrum (Mez) Barfuss & W.Till | |
Jagrantia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It only contains one species, Jagrantia monstrum.
Its native range is south-eastern Nicaragua to northern Ecuador. It is found in the countries of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Panama.
The genus name of Jagrantia is in honour of Jason Randall Grant (b. 1969), an American botanist in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and specialist in Bromeliaceae. The Latin specific epithet of monstrum refers to monstrum meaning "a malfunctioning of nature". The word monster is derived from this term. It was first described and published in Phytotaxa Vol.279 on pages 51-52 in 2016.
References
- "Jagrantia Barfuss & W.Till | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ "Jagrantia monstrum (Mez) Barfuss & W.Till | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- "A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin". www.mobot.org. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
L. monstrum; like Latin, 'signum,' a sign in the heavens, a constellation, meteor" (Liddell & Scott)
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Jagrantia | |
| Jagrantia monstrum | |