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Manekia
Sign in to saveManekia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Piperaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderPiperales
- FamilyPiperaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Piperaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, NY, MO, US, IFAM, UNESP-RC
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Brasil, Haiti
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
- Phylogeny
- References
Manekia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Piperaceae.
It is distributed across disjunct areas in the southern Atlantics Forests of Brazil, the Guiana shield in Venezuela, the Andean regions of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles. It thrives in karst areas, and in humid, premontane or montane forests from sea level to .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manekia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.