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Genus: Phylohydrax

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Gentianales >  Family: Rubiaceae

Two species, found in tropical Africa and Madagascar, with one of them, Phylohydrax carnosa, occurring in southern Africa.

Publications

  • Puff, C. 1986. Phylohydrax (Rubiaceae - Spermacoceae) - a new genus to accommodate the African and Madagascan 'Hydrophylax' species. Plant Systematics and Evolution 154: 343-366.

 

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