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Aspidostemon
Sign in to saveAspidostemon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. It occurs in Madagascar.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLaurales
- FamilyLauraceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 171
- With media
- 163
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Collections
- CAS, MO, US, GH
- Recorded in
- Madagascar
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Aspidostemon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. It occurs in Madagascar.
==Taxonomy== The genus was described by Jens Gunter Rohwer & Hans Georg Richter in Jahrbuch für Botanische Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 109 (1): 74 in 1987. The type species is Aspidostemon perrieri (Danguy) Rohwer. The number of collections available is not large. The identification was done at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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