Taxa named by Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten

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Metteniusa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Metteniusaceae. It was named by Hermann Karsten in 1860 for the German botanist Georg Heinrich Mettenius. It has seven species. The type species is Metteniusa edulis.. "Metteniusaceae" was proposed by Adalbert Schnizlein and validated by Hermann Karsten in 1860.. The family is now placed in its own order, Metteniusales.

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species of plant

species of plant

Socratea is a genus of five species of palms found in tropical Central America and South America.

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Joosia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. There are at least 11 species. They are distributed from Costa Rica to Bolivia with the center of diversity in Ecuador.

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species of plant

Batocarpus is a genus of trees in the family Moraceae, native to North and South America (from Costa Rica to Bolivia).

Lacmellea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1857. It is native to South America and Central America.

Ruagea is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae. It includes nine species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Guatemala to Venezuela and Bolivia. Most species are small or medium-sized trees native to montane rain forest and cloud forest in the Andes and Central American mountains, while Ruagea glabra and R. insignis also grow in lowland rain forests.

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species of plant

Calycophysum is a genus of the gourd family.

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Caryodendron is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1860. The genus includes C. orinocense, known as the Inchi tree or Tacay nut. It is native to Central America and South America. They are dioecious trees.

Burmeistera is a genus of flowering plants in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae. There are around 130 species distributed in Central and South America. This genus represents a rapid evolutionary radiation with species having diverged within only the last 2.6 million years.

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Cephalotomandra is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Nyctaginaceae.

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species of plant

Passovia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.

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species of plant

species of plant

species of plant

Tammsia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It only contains one known species, Tammsia anomala.

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species of plant

Schmardaea is a genus of trees in the family Meliaceae. It solely comprises the species Schmardaea microphylla.

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species of plant