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Species of flowering plant

Ottoa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Subfamily: Apioideae
Tribe: Selineae
Genus: Ottoa
Kunth
Species: O. oenanthoides
Binomial name
Ottoa oenanthoides
Kunth
Synonyms
  • Oenanthe quitensis Spreng.
  • Ottoa oenanthoides subvar. major Wedd.
  • Ottoa oenanthoides var. major (Wedd.) Mathias & Constance

Ottoa is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It only contains one known species, Ottoa oenanthoides.

Its native range is from southern Mexico to Venezuela and Ecuador. It is also found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panamá.

The genus name of Ottoa is in honour of Christoph Friedrich Otto (1783–1856), a German gardener and botanist. The Latin specific epithet of oenanthoides means one that resembles a member of the genus Oenanthe. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. Vol.5 on page 20 in 1821.

Essential oils have been extracted by hydrodistillation methods from leaves and roots of Otto.

References

  1. ^ "Ottoa oenanthoides Kunth". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  2. "Ottoa Kunth | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  3. 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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. Rojas, Janne; Díaz, Alexis Alberto Buitrago; Rojas, Luis B.; Morales, Antonio; Baldovino, Shirley (July 2010). "Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil of Leaves and Roots of Ottoa oenanthoides (Apiaceae) from Merida, Venezuela". Natural Product Communications. 5 (7): 1115–1116. doi:10.1177/1934578X1000500728. PMID 20734953.
Taxon identifiers
Ottoa
Ottoa oenanthoides
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