Bognera

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|genus = Bognera

|parent_authority = S.Mayo & D.Nicolson

|species = recondita

|authority = (Madison) S.Mayo & Nicolson

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Bognera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The single species that makes up the genus is Bognera recondita. The word recondita means "hidden" referring to the fact that the plant is only found in remote areas of Amazonian Brazil near the Peruvian border. The species was discovered in the late 1970s and was originally placed in the genus Ulearum, as Ulearum reconditum {{small|Madison, Aroideana 3: 101 (1980)}}.{{cite web |title=Bognera recondita (Madison) Mayo & Nicolson {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942108-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=18 August 2022 |language=en}}

In 1984, a new genus was created in Taxon vol.33 on page 690,{{cite web |title=Bognera Mayo & Nicolson {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893354-1/general-information |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=18 August 2022 |language=en}} and Bognera was named after the German Aroid specialist Josef Bogner (b. 1939), who was a botanist, director of the botanical garden in Munich and a specialist in Araceae.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

Bognera is believed to be closely related to Dieffenbachia.Brown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. {{ISBN|0-88192-485-7}}.