Lundia (plant)

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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|taxon = Lundia

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|Craterotecoma |Mart. ex Meisn.

|Exsertanthera |Pichon

|Phoenicocissus |Mart. ex Meisn. }}

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Lundia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae.{{cite web |title=Lundia DC. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331737-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=17 May 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is Mexico to southern Tropical America. It is found in the countries of Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago and Venezuela.

The genus name of Lundia is in honour of Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880), a Danish palaeontologist, zoologist and archaeologist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

It was first described and published in Biblioth. Universelle Genève, n.s., Vol.17 on page 127 in 1838.