Biology:Pedalium
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
| Pedalium | |
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| Pedalium murex | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Pedaliaceae |
| Genus: | Pedalium D.Royen[1] |
| Species: | P. murex
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| Binomial name | |
| Pedalium murex | |
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Pedalium is a genus of plant in the Pedaliaceae family comprising one species, Pedalium murex. It is distributed in tropical Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.[1]
Etymology
The genera name is derived from the Greek word pedalion meaning 'rudder of a ship'.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Pedalium" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/31851-1.
- ↑ Ib Friis and Olof Ryding (Editors) Biodiversity Research in the Horn of Africa Region: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea at the Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, August 25-27, 1999 (2001), p. 65, at Google Books
External links
Wikidata ☰ {{{from}}} entry
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