title: Monteiroa (plant)
text: # Monteiroa (plant)
  
  Monteiroa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
  
  Its native range is south-eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina.
  
  The genus name of Monteiroa is in honour of Honório da Costa Monteiro Filho (1900–1978), a Brazilian professor of botany and director of the national school of agriculture in Rio de Janeiro and was a specialist in Malvaceae. It was first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.3 on page 237 in 1951.
  
  ## Species
  
  According to Kew:
  
  * Monteiroa bullata (Ekman) Krapov.
  * Monteiroa catharinensis Krapov.
  * Monteiroa dusenii (Ekman) Krapov.
  * Monteiroa glomerata (Hook. & Arn.) Krapov.
  * Monteiroa hatschbachii Krapov.
  * Monteiroa leitei Monteiro
  * Monteiroa ptarmicifolia (A.St.-Hil. & Naudin) Krapov.
  * Monteiroa reitzii Krapov.
  * Monteiroa smithii Krapov.
  * Monteiroa triangularifolia Krapov.
  