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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 madagascariensis Baker
  • Murtughas madagascariensis (Baker) Kuntze
  • Pemphis madagascariensis (Baker) Koehne
  • Pemphis punctata Drake

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

It is native to Madagascar.

The genus name of Koehneria is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848ā€“1918), a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland, 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).

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. ^ "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, Dā€“L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
Taxon identifiers
Koehneria
Koehneria madagascariensis
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