Pierranthus

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| genus = Pierranthus

| parent_authority = Bonati

| species = capitatus

| authority = (Bonati) Bonati

| synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=808413-1 |title=Pierranthus capitatus (Bonati) Bonati |access-date=14 November 2021}}

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|Vandellia capitata |Bonati

|Delpya capitata |(Bonati) Bonati

|Delpya cochinchinensis |Pierre ex Bonati}}

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Pierranthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Linderniaceae. The only known species is Pierranthus capitatus {{small|(Bonati) Bonati}}.{{cite web |title=Pierranthus Bonati {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37925-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=28 May 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is Indo-China and it is found in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.

The genus name of Pierranthus is in honour of Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (1833–1905), a French botanist known for his Asian studies.{{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}} The genus has one known synonym of Delpya {{small|Pierre ex Bonati}}. The Latin specific epithet of capitatus is derived from capitate meaning having dense-headed growth.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }} Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, séries 2, Vol.4 n page 254 in 1912.