Microdesmis

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Microdesmis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Pandaceae
Genus: Microdesmis
Hook.f. ex Hook.
Synonyms [1]
  • TetragyneMiq.
  • WorcesterianthusMerr.

Microdesmis is a genus of plant of the family Pandaceae. It is native to tropical Africa, China and Southeast Asia. [1] [2]

  1. Microdesmis afrodecandra Floret, A.M.Louis & J.M.Reitsma - Gabon
  2. Microdesmis camerunensis J.Léonard - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
  3. Microdesmis caseariifolia Planch. ex Hook -Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Borneo, Sumatra, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
  4. Microdesmis haumaniana J.Léonard - Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Angola
  5. Microdesmis kasaiensis J.Léonard - Zaïre
  6. Microdesmis keayana J.Léonard - Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo, Nigeria
  7. Microdesmis klainei J.Léonard - Gabon
  8. Microdesmis magallanensis (Elmer) Steenis - Luzon, Sibuyan
  9. Microdesmis pierlotiana J.Léonard - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic
  10. Microdesmis puberula Hook.f. ex Planch - widespread across central Africa from Nigeria east to Uganda, south to Angola
  11. Microdesmis yafungana J.Léonard - Zaïre

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