Borojoa
Encyclopedia
Borojoa is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the Rubiaceae
family
. It was described by José Cuatrecasas
in 1949 and the name is derived from the Emberá
word Borojó meaning: boro = head, ne-jo = fruit - head-shaped fruit, or round, globulous fruit. The genus is found in Central and South Tropical America.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
. It was described by José Cuatrecasas
José Cuatrecasas
José Cuatrecasas was a botanist. He was born on March 19, 1903 in Camprodon, Catalonia, Spain.His research focused on the high-elevation páramo and sub-páramo regions of the Andes Mountains in South America, especially the flowering plant families Asteraceae and Malpighiaceae.In 1997, the...
in 1949 and the name is derived from the Emberá
Emberá languages
Emberá is a group of languages spoken by 100,000 people in northwestern Colombia and southeastern Panama. It belongs to the Choco language family.Embera, Emperã, Empena, Eberã, Epena, etc...
word Borojó meaning: boro = head, ne-jo = fruit - head-shaped fruit, or round, globulous fruit. The genus is found in Central and South Tropical America.
Species
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