''Goodallia'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s belonging to the family

Thymelaeaceae The Thymelaeaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera (listed below) and 898 species.Zachary S. Rogers (2009 onwards)A World Checklist of Thymelaeaceae (version 1) Missouri Botanical Garden Website, St. Louis. It ...

. It just contains one species, ''Goodallia guianensis'' Benth. Its native range is

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

. The genus name of ''Goodallia'' is in honour of

Edward Angelo Goodall Edward Angelo Goodall (8 June 1819 – 16 April 1908) was an English landscape and orientalist painter, a member of the Goodall family of artists. Early life Goodall was the son of Edward Goodall, the engraver of J.M.W. Turner's works, an ...

(1819–1908), an English painter and illustrator. The Latin

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

of ''guianensis'' means "of the

Guianas The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word ''Guayanas'' (''Las Guayanas''), is a region in north-eastern South America which includes the following three territories: * French Guiana, an overseas department and region of France * ...

" (an area of north eastern South America). It was first described and published by George Bentham in London J. Bot. Vol.4 on page 633 in 1845.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q18331866, from2=Q17582044 Thymelaeaceae Malvales genera Plants described in 1845 Flora of Guyana