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Ferdinandusa
Sign in to saveFerdinandusa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to the American tropics.
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyRubiaceae
Native toBolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá
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Ferdinandusa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to the American tropics.
==Taxonomy== The genus was initially named Ferdinandea by Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (but that name was an illegitimate homonym) who placed it in the family Bignoniaceae. This species is a shrub or small tree that occurs at the edge of a swamp in a gallery forest.
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