IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30122604-2
Publication
Genera Plantarum (Jussieu)
Collation
226
Family as entered in IPNI
Apiaceae

Type Information

Type Name
B. gummifera (Lam.) Spreng. (gummifer) (1818) (Hydrocotyle gummifera Lam.)

Remarks

Jussieu provided the etymology of the genus name Bolax as gleba (= a lump of earth, a clod) and thus indicated the gender as feminine

Links

Duplicate citation of
Bolax Comm. ex Juss., Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 226 (1789).