Biology:Helicteropsis

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Helicteropsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.[1] It includes a single species, Helicteropsis microsiphon, which is native to Madagascar.[2]

The species was first described as Hibiscus microsiphon by Henri Ernest Baillon in 1885. In 1925 Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner described the genus Helicteropsis with a single species, Helicteropsis perrieri. In 1955 Hochreutiner synonimized the two species as Helicteropsis microsiphon.[2]

References

  1. "Helicteropsis Hochr. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:25894-1. 
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