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Microtea
Sign in to saveMicrotea, the jumby peppers, are a genus of flowering plants in the family Microteaceae, native to the Caribbean islands, Central America, and tropical South America.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Microtea is referenced by 418 other articles, and connects out to Asterids, Vitaceae and Rosids.
It sits within the topics Caryophyllales, Caryophyllales genera and Flora of Southern America.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyMicroteaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 369
- With media
- 33
- Family
- Microteaceae
- Collections
- WIS, IAP, UNIVASF, UFERSA, NY, UFPB
- Recorded in
- United States, Brasil, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Microteaceae
- Image
- (Microtea glochidiata, Moq.)., da Coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica.jpg
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- taxon name
- Microtea
- topic's main category
- Category:Microtea
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- Microtea
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Encyclopedic overview
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Microtea, the jumby peppers, are a genus of flowering plants in the family Microteaceae, native to the Caribbean islands, Central America, and tropical South America.
==Species== Ten species are currently accepted. Microtea bahiensis Microtea celosioides Microtea debilis – weak jumby pepper Microtea glochidiata Microtea maypurensis Microtea papillosa Microtea portoricensis – Puerto Rico jumby pepper Microtea scabrida Microtea sulcicaulis Microtea tenuifolia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Microtea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.