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Oldfieldia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Picrodendraceae |
Tribe: | Picrodendreae |
Subtribe: | Paiveusinae |
Genus: | Oldfieldia Benth. & Hook.f. |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Oldfieldia is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, the only member of its subtribe (Paiveusinae). It was described as a genus in 1850. [2] [3]
Oldfieldia is native to Africa. [1]
Oldfieldia is after Richard Albert Kearns Oldfield (R.A.K Oldfield) the British plant collector in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and surgeon on the 1832-1834 Niger River expedition with Laird and Lauder [4]
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