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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}}
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|taxon = Recordia
|authority = [[Harold Norman Moldenke|Moldenke]]
|synonyms = ''Verbenoxylum'' {{small|Tronc.}}
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'''''Recordia''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]]s belonging to the family [[Verbenaceae]].<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Recordia'' Moldenke {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295531-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to [[Bolivia]] and southern Brazil.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Recordia'' is in honour of [[Samuel J. Record]] (1881–1945), an American botanist who played a prominent role in the study of trees and [[wood]].<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>
It was first described and published in [[Phytologia]] Vol.1 on page 99 in 1934.<ref name="POWO"/>
Known species, according to Kew:<ref name="POWO" />
*''[[Recordia boliviana]]'' {{small|Moldenke}}
*''[[Recordia reitzii]]'' {{small|(Moldenke) Thode & O'Leary}}
==References==
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[[Category:Verbenaceae]]
[[Category:Verbenaceae genera]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1934]]
[[Category:Flora of Bolivia]]
[[Category:Flora of South Brazil]]