Introduction
This website is designed to discuss various aspects of the genus Monnina. This genus were first described by Ruiz and Pavon and it occurs from Southern United States to Chile, Brazil, and Argentina.
All data is from the work of Alina Freire Fierro at various institutions in Quito, Sao Paulo, St. Louis and now in Philadelphia at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
See relative distribution of Monnina specimens below then search specimens by country using the database on the right!
View Monnina Distribution in a larger map
Acknowledgments
- Thanks to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Missouri Botanical Garden for their support with my research
- I thank the curators of the following herbaria, who kindly allowed the use of Monnina specimens: AAU, BM,CORD, F, G, K, LIL, LP, MEDEL, MO, MVM, MWM, NY, PH, P, QCA, QCNE, QPLS, R, SI, US, USM, VEN, W
- Thanks to Penny Steffen, friend and volunteer at the Missouri Botanical Garden for scanning the almost four hundred protologues of Monnina
- Thanks to Jeffrey Ng and to his father Mr. Ben Ng for their hard work with the design and production of the website
