Pranceacanthus

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|genus = Pranceacanthus

|parent_authority = Wassh. (1984)

|species = coccineus

|authority = Wassh. (1984)

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Pranceacanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.{{cite web |title=Pranceacanthus Wassh. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893411-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Pranceacanthus coccineus Wassh.

It is native to Bolivia and (northern and west central) Brazil.

The genus name of Pranceacanthus is in honour of Ghillean Prance (b. 1937), a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae.{{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 Latin specific epithet of coccineus means scarlet and is derived from coccum..{{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 Brittonia Vol.36 on page 1 in 1984.