''Isonandra montana'' is a plant species first described in 1860.
''Isonandra montana'' is a small tree up to 10 meters tall, native to
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref> and possibly to the Western Ghats of India.
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 ...
''montana'' refers to mountains or coming from mountains.[Archibald William Smith ]
References
montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...
Flora of India (region)
Trees of Sri Lanka
Plants described in 1860
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