Pouchetia

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Pouchetia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Pouchetia
A.Rich. ex DC.

Pouchetia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. [1]

Its native range is western Tropical Africa. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cabinda, Central African Repu, Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo and Zaïre. [1]

The genus name of Pouchetia is in honour of Félix Archimède Pouchet (1800–1872), a French naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur's germ theory. [2] It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.4 on page 393 in 1830. [1]

Known species

According to Kew: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Pouchetia A.Rich. ex DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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