Misplaced Pages

Leeuwenbergia

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Genus of flowering plants

Leeuwenbergia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Jatropheae
Genus: Leeuwenbergia
Letouzey & N.Hallé

Leeuwenbergia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1974 and named in honor of Toon Leeuwenberg. The entire genus is endemic to tropical west-central Africa.

Species
  1. Leeuwenbergia africana Letouzey & N.Hallé - Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  2. Leeuwenbergia letestui Letouzey & N.Hallé - Gabon

References

  1. Letouzey, René & Hallé, Nicolas. 1974. Adansonia ser. 2. 14: 380
  2. Tropicos, Leeuwenbergia Letouzey & N. Hallé
  3. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Taxon identifiers
Leeuwenbergia


Stub icon

This Euphorbiaceae-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: