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Cuviera
Sign in to saveCuviera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae native to tropical Africa. It was originally described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1807 and is named after the French naturalist Georges Cuvier.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 56
- With media
- 44
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Collections
- A, MO, GH
- Recorded in
- Cameroon, Congo, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Gabon, Guinea
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Distribution and habitat
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- Species
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Cuviera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae native to tropical Africa. It was originally described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1807 and is named after the French naturalist Georges Cuvier.
==Description== The species form a homogeneous group that is well characterized by their striped petals, many-flowered inflorescences and usually ant holes in the twigs. The bracts are recaulescent, which means that the first node of the inflorescence is bare and the lowest bracts are inserted at the second node.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cuviera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.