Article Nº 2421 Plant Vol. II · p. 741
Monizia
Monizia is a plant genus of the carrot family (Umbelliferae), named by R. T. Lowe after the Madeiran botanist João Maria Moniz. Its only species, Monizia edulis, was found on Deserta Grande in 1855 and later in the Selvagens and Curral das Freiras.
A genus of the Umbelliferae family, dedicated by the English naturalist Richard Thomas Lowe to the distinguished Madeiran botanist João Maria Moniz. It was published in vol. VIII, p. 285, of Hooker’s Journal of Botany, and comprises a single species, Monizia edulis, found in June 1855 on Deserta Grande (‘great deserted island’) and later in the Savage Islands (Selvagens) and in Curral das Freiras (‘nuns’ fold’).
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