| Mossia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Subfamily: | Ruschioideae |
| Tribe: | Ruschieae |
| Genus: | Mossia N.E.Br. |
| Species: | M. intervallaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Mossia intervallaris (L.Bolus) N.E.Br. | |
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Mossia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. [1] It only contains one known species, Mossia intervallaris. [2]
Its native range is Lesotho and South Africa and it is found in the provinces of the Cape Provinces, Free State and the Northern Provinces. [2] It is listed as least concern on the Red List of South African Plants. [3]
The genus name of Mossia is in honour of Charles Edward Moss (1870–1930), an English-born South African botanist, the youngest son of a nonconformist minister, and is noted for being the editor of the first two parts of The Cambridge British Flora published in 1914 and 1920. [4] The Latin specific epithet of intervallaris refers to unusually long internodes (portion of a stem between two nodes). [5] Both the genus and species were first described and published in Gard. Chron., series 3, Vol.87 on page 71 in 1930. [2]
