Torralbasia

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Torralbasia

|authority = Krug & Urb.

|synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=255159-2 |title=Torralbasia cuneifolia (C.Wright ex A.Gray) Krug & Urb. |access-date=29 December 2021}}

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|Celastrus cuneifolius |(C.Wright ex A.Gray) M.Gómez

|Maytenus cuneifolia |(C.Wright ex A.Gray) Griseb. }}

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Torralbasia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.{{cite web |title=Torralbasia Krug & Urb. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30260542-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 March 2021 |language=en}} It only contains the one known species, Torralbasia cuneifolia (C.Wright ex A.Gray) Krug & Urb.

It is native to the Caribbean and is found in the countries of Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

The genus name of Torralbasia is in honour of José Ildefonso Torralbas (1842–1903), Cuban botanist and agronomist; director of the university botanical museum in Havana and professor at the university.{{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 cuneifolia means wedge-shaped, and is derived from cuneate.{{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 D.H.Segui, Fl. Med. Tox. Cuba on page 60 in 1900.

There are 3 Accepted subspecies;

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|Torralbasia cuneifolia subsp. cuneifolia |

|Torralbasia cuneifolia var. rotundata |Borhidi

|Torralbasia cuneifolia subsp. verrucosa |Borhidi }}