''Rivasmartinezia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s belonging to the family

Apiaceae Apiaceae () or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium,'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot, or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering p ...

. Its native range is Spain. The genus name of ''Rivasmartinezia'' is in honour of Salvador Rivas Martínez (1935–2020), who was a Spanish Biologist, Apothecary, Botanist (Mycology, Lichenology,

Pteridology The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissue ...

), also mountaineer and

Alpinist Alpine climbing () is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpi ...

. He was also Director of the Botanical Garden in Madrid. The genus was

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

by José Antonio Fernández Prieto and Eduardo Cires Rodríguez in Pl. Biosystems vol.148 (Issue 5-6) on page 982 in 2014 (epublished). Species: * '' Rivasmartinezia cazorlana'' Blanca, Cueto, Benavente & J.Fuentes * '' Rivasmartinezia vazquezii'' Fern.Prieto & Cires

References

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