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Mesanthemum
Sign in to saveMesanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Eriocaulaceae, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar. ==Species== Mesanthemum africanum Moldenke - Mozambique, Zimbabwe Mesanthemum albidum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone Mesanthemum angustitepalum Kimp - Zaïre Mesanthemum auratum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau Mesanthemum bennae Jacq.-Fél - Guinea Mesanthemum cupricola Kimp - Zaïre Mesanthemum glabrum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia Mesanthemum jaegeri Jacq.-Fél - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzavi
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Vinony's link graph records 1 inbound reference to Mesanthemum, and connects out to Africa, Madagascar and plant.
It sits within the topics Eriocaulaceae, Flora of the Afrotropical realm and Plants described in 1856.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyEriocaulaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- With media
- 24
- Family
- Eriocaulaceae
- Collections
- MO, MNHN, NHMUK, NY
- Recorded in
- Guinea, Madagascar, Liberia, Benin, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Ethiopie, Congo
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Eriocaulaceae
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- taxon name
- Mesanthemum
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- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Mesanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Eriocaulaceae, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar. ==Species== Mesanthemum africanum Moldenke - Mozambique, Zimbabwe Mesanthemum albidum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone Mesanthemum angustitepalum Kimp - Zaïre Mesanthemum auratum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau Mesanthemum bennae Jacq.-Fél - Guinea Mesanthemum cupricola Kimp - Zaïre Mesanthemum glabrum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia Mesanthemum jaegeri Jacq.-Fél - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville Mesanthemum pilosum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi Mesanthemum prescottianum (Bong.) Körn. - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon Mesanthemum pubescens (Lam.) Körn. - Madagascar Mesanthemum radicans (Benth.) Körn. - widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique Mesanthemum reductum H.E.Hess - Congo-Brazzaville, Angola Mesanthemum rutenbergianum Körn. - Madagascar Mesanthemum variabile Kimp - Zaïre, Zambia
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mesanthemum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.