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Foetidia
Sign in to saveFoetidia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1788.
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilyLecythidaceae
Native toComoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Tanzania
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Foetidia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1788.
Most authors place the genus in the family Lecythidaceae, the sole genus in the subfamily Foetidioideae, but some prefer to treat it as a distinct family, the Foetidiaceae. It is native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.
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Madagascar
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Tanzania
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Mauritius
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tree
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Indian Ocean
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Réunion
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Mayotte
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taxonomy
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tracheophyte
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Ericales
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Eudicots
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Rodrigues
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