Mendoncia
Mendoncia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Acanthaceae |
Subfamily: | Thunbergioideae |
Genus: | Mendoncia |
Species | |
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Mendoncia is a genus of climbing plants in the family Acanthaceae.
It is native to southeastern South America, Africa, and Madagascar. In South America, some of its species are endemic to Brazil in the Atlantic Forest and/or Cerrado ecoregions; in Africa the largest number of species is found in Cameroon and Gabon.
Species[]
Species include:
- Vell.
- (A. Chev. ex Hutchinson & Dalziel) Benoist[1]
- (Gilg) Benoist[2]
- Britton[3]
- Mendoncia mollis
- Mendoncia puberula
- Mendoncia velloziana Nees
References[]
- ^ "Mendoncia combretoides (A. Chev. ex Hutchinson & Dalziel) Benoist". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Mendoncia lindaviana (Gilg) Benoist". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Mendoncia lindavii Britton". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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Categories:
- Mendoncia
- Acanthaceae genera
- Flora of Brazil
- Flora of Atlantic Forest (biome)
- Flora of the Cerrado
- Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
- Acanthaceae stubs