Biology:Basella
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Short description: Genus of plants
| Basella | |
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| Basella alba | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Basellaceae |
| Genus: | Basella L. |
| Type species | |
| Basella alba | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Gandola Rumph. ex Raf. | |
The genus Basella is the type genus of the plant family Basellaceae. Basella contains five known species.[2] Three species are endemic to Madagascar , and one is endemic to southeastern Africa. The fifth is widespread across Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and New Guinea.[1]
The genus name is derived from the south Indian name Basale which Hendrik Rheede recorded in Malabar as Basella in his Hortus Malabaricus. The name was utilitized by Linnaeus.[3][4]
Species
- Basella alba L. - Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea; naturalized in Africa, southern China, Central America, and various oceanic islands
- Basella excavata Scott-Elliot - Madagascar
- Basella leandriana H.Perrier - Madagascar
- Basella madagascariensis Boivin ex. H.Perrier - Madagascar
- Basella paniculata Volkens - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Transvaal, Kwazulu-Natal
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Basella. The Plant List.
- ↑ Rheede, Hendrik van (1688). Hortus Malabaricus. 7. p. 45. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/501948.
- ↑ Graham, John (1839). A catalogue of the plants growing in Bombay and its vicinity; spontaneous, cultivated or introduced, as far as they have been ascertained.. p. 170. https://archive.org/details/catalogueofplant00grah/page/334/mode/1up.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q137750 entry
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