Koehneria | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Lythraceae |
Genus: |
Koehneria S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas |
Species: | K. madagascariensis
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Binomial name | |
Koehneria madagascariensis (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas
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Synonyms | |
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Koehneria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae. [1] The only species is Koehneria madagascariensis (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas [2]
It is native to Madagascar. [2]
The genus name of Koehneria is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland, [3] The Latin specific epithet of madagascariensis means "coming from Madagascar", and both genus and species were first described and published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.73 on pages 805-806 in (1986 publ. 1987). [2]
Koehneria | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Lythraceae |
Genus: |
Koehneria S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas |
Species: | K. madagascariensis
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Binomial name | |
Koehneria madagascariensis (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas
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Synonyms | |
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Koehneria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae. [1] The only species is Koehneria madagascariensis (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas [2]
It is native to Madagascar. [2]
The genus name of Koehneria is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland, [3] The Latin specific epithet of madagascariensis means "coming from Madagascar", and both genus and species were first described and published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.73 on pages 805-806 in (1986 publ. 1987). [2]