''Pinzona'' is a
monotypic genus of
flowering plants belonging to the family
Dilleniaceae. It only contains one known species, ''Pinzona coriacea''
Mart. & Zucc.
Its native range is Tropical America. It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (northern), Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, the Leeward Islands, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela and the Windward Islands.
The genus name of ''Pinzona'' is in honour of
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (c. 1462 – after 1514), a Spanish navigator and explorer, the youngest of the Pinzón brothers. Along with his older brother,
Martín Alonso Pinzón (c. 1441 – c. 1493), who captained the
Pinta, he sailed with
Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World, in 1492, as captain of the
Niña. 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 ''coriacea'' means
leather-like from ''corium''.
Both the genus and the specied were first described and published in Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Vol.1 on page 371 (1829-1830, published in 1832).
References
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Dilleniaceae
Eudicot genera
Plants described in 1832
Flora of Central America
Flora of Trinidad and Tobago
Flora of the Windward Islands
Flora of the Leeward Islands
Flora of northern South America
Flora of western South America
Flora of North Brazil
Flora without expected TNC conservation status