| Moriera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Moriera Boiss |
| Species: | M. spinosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Moriera spinosa Boiss. | |
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Moriera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It only contains one known species, Moriera spinosa Boiss.
Its native range is Central Asia and it is found in the countries of Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan.
The genus name of Moriera is in honour of James Justinian Morier (c. 1780 – 1849), a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about the Qajar dynasty in Iran, most famously for the Hajji Baba series. The Latin specific epithet of spinosa is derived from spina meaning spiny. The genus was first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., série 2 Vol.16 on page 380 in 1841, and then the species, Moriera spinosa was first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.2, vol.17 on page 182 in 1842.
References
- ^ "Moriera Boiss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Moriera spinosa Boiss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 28 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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199102051.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Moriera | |
| Moriera spinosa | |