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Lepistemon

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Lepistemon

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Lepistemon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Convolvulaceae.

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It sits within the topics Convolvulaceae and Convolvulaceae genera.

Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderSolanales
  5. FamilyConvolvulaceae
Native toAngola, Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China Southeast
Observations recorded1,896

General: with Lepistemon the feature of filament base scales, though neither occurs

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
182
With media
165
Family
Convolvulaceae
Collections
NY
Recorded in
Malawi, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia/Malaya, Malaysia/Sabah, Nigeria

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Convolvulaceae
Image
Lepistemon owariense 01.jpg
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taxon name
Lepistemon
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Lepistemon
Commons category
Lepistemon
taxon common name
鳞蕊藤属
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Lepistemon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Convolvulaceae.

Its native range is Tropical Africa, Tropical and Subtropical Asia to Northeastern Australia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lepistemon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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