Heywoodia

Heywoodia lucens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Tribe: Wielandieae
Genus: Heywoodia
Sim
Species: H. lucens
Binomial name
Heywoodia lucens
Sim

Heywoodia is a genus of plants in the Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1907.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Heywoodia lucens, native to eastern, southeastern, and southern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Cape Province).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Thomas Robertson Sim. 1907. Forests and Forest Flora of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 326
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Heywoodia T. R. Sim
  3. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families


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