Afrobrunnichia

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Afrobrunnichia
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Herbarium sheet of A. erecta
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Afrobrunnichia

Hutch. & Dalziel
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Afrobrunnichia is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with two species in West Africa.

It is native to Angola, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zaïre. [1]

The genus name of Afrobrunnichia is in honour of Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827), a Danish zoologist and mineralogist. [2] It was first described and published in Fl. W. Trop. Afr. Vol.1 on page 118 in 1927. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Afrobrunnichia Hutch. & Dalziel | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  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. S2CID   187926901 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.