Bothriospora

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Bothriospora
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Ixoroideae
Tribe: Dialypetalantheae
Genus: Bothriospora
Hook.f.
Species:
B. corymbosa
Binomial name
Bothriospora corymbosa
Synonyms
  • genus: TepesiaC.F.Gaertn.
  • species: Evosmia corymbosa Benth.

Bothriospora is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. [1] [2] The genus contains only one species, viz. Bothriospora corymbosa, native to Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Brazil. [3]

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References

  1. Joseph Dalton Hooker. 1870. Icones Plantarum 11: 55, pl. 1069, Bothriospora corymbosa
  2. Bentham, George. 1841. Journal of Botany, being a second series of the Botanical Miscellany 3: 218, Evosmia corymbosa
  3. "Bothriospora in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae" . Retrieved 10 June 2014.