''Tourrettia'' is a

monotypic genus 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 ...

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

Bignoniaceae Bignoniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales commonly known as the bignonias or trumpetvines.Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, and Alastair Culham. ''Flowering Plant Families of the World''. Firefly Books: ...

. It only contains one known species, ''Tourrettia lappacea'' (L'Hér.)

Willd. Carl Ludwig Willdenow (22 August 1765 – 10 July 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. Willdenow was also ...

The genus of ''Tourrettia'' has 2 known synonyms, ''Dombeya'' and ''Medica'' It is also in Tribe ''Tourrettieae''. Its native range stretches from Mexico down to north-western Argentina. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru and Venezuela. The genus name of ''Tourrettia'' is in honour of

Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette (11 August 1729, Lyon – 1 October 1793, Lyon) was a French botanist. He corresponded with Rousseau and his official botanical abbreviation is Latourr. Family His father, Jacques-Annibal Claret de La T ...

(1729–1793), a French botanist. 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 ''lappacea'' is derived from ''lappa'' meaning with burrs. It was first described and published in Mém. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 1784 on page 205 in 1787. The species was published in Sp. Pl. edition 4 Vol.3 on page 263 in 1800.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q735462, from2=Q15553363 Bignoniaceae Bignoniaceae genera Plants described in 1787 Flora of Southeastern Mexico Flora of Central America Flora of Venezuela Flora of western South America Flora of Northwest Argentina