Biology:Koehneria

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Koehneria
Scientific classification edit
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
  • (Baker) Koehne Baker
  • Drake Murtughas madagascariensis
  • Lagerstroemia madagascariensis (Baker) Kuntze
  • Pemphis madagascariensis Pemphis punctata

Koehneria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae.[1] The only species is Koehneria madagascariensis (Baker) S.A.Graham, Tobe & Baas[2]

It is native to Madagascar .[2]

The genus name of Koehneria is in honour of Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland,[3] 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).[2]

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