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Genus of plants

Maasia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Subfamily: Malmeoideae
Genus: Maasia
Mols, Kessler & Rogstad

Maasia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae.

Its native range is Indo-China to New Guinea. It is found in Andaman Islands, Borneo, Java, Malaya, Maluku Islands, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera and Thailand.

The genus name of Maasia is in honour of Paul Maas (born 1939), a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics. It was first described and published in Syst. Bot. Vol. 33 on page 493 in 2008. The name Mosannona Chatrou (1998), Annonaceae, was also named after him.

Species

According to Kew:

References

  1. ^ "Maasia Mols, Kessler & Rogstad | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 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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