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Genus of flowering plants

Campylostachys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Stilbaceae
Genus: Campylostachys
Kunth 1832 not E.Mey. 1843
Species: C. cernua
Binomial name
Campylostachys cernua
(L.f.) Kunth
Synonyms
  • Campilostachis A.Juss.
  • Stilbe cernua L.f.

Campylostachys is a genus of flowering plants in the family Stilbaceae described as a genus in 1832.

There is only one known species, Campylostachys cernua, endemic to the Cape Province region of South Africa.

formerly included

now in Euthystachys Kogelbergia

names in Cyperaceae

In 1843, Meyer used the same name to refer to some plants in the Cyperaceae, thus creating an illegitimate homonym. Meyer's genus name and the species name he created in the genus are invalid as well as illegitimate, as they were published without descriptions.

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1832. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1831: 206-207 in Latin
  3. Tropicos, Campylostachys Kunth
  4. Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1843. Zwei Pflanzengeografische Dokumente 83
Taxon identifiers
Campylostachys
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