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|taxon = Mairetis
|authority = [[I.M.Johnst.]]
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|Lithospermum microspermum |Boiss.
|Lithospermum webbii |Coss. & Durieu
|Rhytispermum apulum |Webb & Berthel. }}
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'''''Mairetis''''' is a [[monotypic]] genus of [[flowering plant]]s belonging to the family [[Boraginaceae]].<ref>{{cite web |title=''Mairetis'' I.M.Johnst. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4666-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=17 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It only contains one known species, ''Mairetis microsperma'' <small>(Boiss.) I.M.Johnst.</small> <ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Mairetis microsperma'' (Boiss.) I.M.Johnst. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:118449-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=21 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to the [[Canary Islands]] and Morocco.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Mairetis'' is in honour of [[René Maire]] (1878–1949), a French botanist and [[mycologist]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> The Latin [[binomial nomenclature|specific epithet]] of ''microsperma'' means 'micro' meaning small and 'sperma' the Greek word for seed.<ref>{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}</ref>
Both the genus and species were first described and published in J. Arnold Arbor. Vol.34 on page 4 in 1953.<ref name="POWO"/>
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[[Category:Boraginoideae]]
[[Category:Boraginaceae genera]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1953]]
[[Category:Flora of the Canary Islands]]
[[Category:Flora of Morocco]]
[[Category:Monotypic Boraginales genera]]