Plutarchia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.

[1] It is native to Colombia and Ecuador.

[1] The genus name of Plutarchia is in honour of Plutarch (c. 45 – c. 125), a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

[2] It was first described and published in Bull.

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