Mwasumbia

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Mwasumbia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Mwasumbia
Couvreur & D.M.Johnson
Species:
M. alba
Binomial name
Mwasumbia alba
Couvreur & D.M.Johnson

Mwasumbia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae. The only known species is Mwasumbia alba. [1]

It is native to Tanzania. [1]

The genus name of Mwasumbia is in honour of Leonard B. Mwasumbi (b.1938), a Tanzanian botanist, plant taxonomist, specialist in Tanzanian flora, and former head of the Herbarium at the University of Dar es Salaam. [2]

The genus was circumscribed by Thomas Louis Pierre Couvreur and David Mark Johnson in Syst. Bot. vol.34 (Issue 2) on page 268 and 270 in 2009. [1]

The Latin specific epithet alba (of the species) means “white”, [3] referring to the white flowers.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mwasumbia Couvreur & D.M.Johnson | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN   978-1845337315.