Genus of plants
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Purdieanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gentianaceae. The only known species is Purdieanthus pulcher.
It is native to Colombia.
The genus name of "Purdieanthus" is in honour of William Purdie (c. 1817 – 1857), a Scottish gardener at botanical gardens in Edinburgh and Trinidad. He collected plants in Jamaica, Colombia and Venezuela. The Latin specific epithet of "pulcher" means beautiful.It is derived from feminine "pulchra" or neuter "pulchrum".
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in H.G.A.Engler &amp; K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. Vol.4 (Issue 2) on page 99 in 1895.
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