Koehneria

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Koehneria
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Lythraceae
Genus: Koehneria
S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas
Species:
K. madagascariensis
Binomial name
Koehneria madagascariensis
(Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas
Synonyms
  • Lagerstroemia madagascariensisBaker
  • Murtughas madagascariensis(Baker) Kuntze
  • Pemphis madagascariensis(Baker) Koehne
  • Pemphis punctataDrake

Koehneria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae. [1] The only species is Koehneria madagascariensis(Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas [2]

It is native to Madagascar. [2]

The genus name of Koehneria is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland, [3] The Latin specific epithet of madagascariensis means "coming from Madagascar", and both genus and species were first described and published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.73 on pages 805-806 in (1986 publ. 1987). [2]

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References

  1. "Koehneria S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Koehneria madagascariensis (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  3. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-8493-2676-9.