Pranceacanthus
Pranceacanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It only contains one known species, "Pranceacanthus coccineus" It is native to Bolivia and (northern and west central) Brazil. The genus name of "Pranceacanthus" is in honour of Ghillean Prance (b. 1937), a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae. The Latin specific epithet of "coccineus" means scarlet and is derived from "coccum".. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Brittonia Vol.36 on page 1 in 1984.