Salvertia

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| image = Salverta densiflora Pohl110.png

| image_caption = Salverta densiflora

| genus = Salvertia

| parent_authority = A.St.-Hil.

| species = convallariodora

| authority = A.St.-Hil.

| synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=871008-1 |title=Salvertia convallariodora A.St.-Hil. |access-date=5 December 2021}}

|synonyms = Salvertia thyrsiflora {{small|Pohl}}

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Salvertia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Vochysiaceae. The only species is Salvertia convallariodora.{{cite web |title=Salvertia A.St.-Hil. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:41634-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to Suriname, Brazil and Bolivia.

The genus name of Salvertia is in honour of Augustin Amable Dutour de Salvert or Du Tour de Salvert Bellenave (1781–1838), a French botanist and writer, brother-in-law of the author of the genus, Augustin Saint-Hilaire.{{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 convallariodora refers to smelling (-odora) like flowers of the plant genus Convallaria.

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Vol.6 on page 266 in 1820.