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Ameroglossum
Sign in to saveAmeroglossum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Scrophulariaceae. It includes nine species native to northeastern Brazil, where they grow in moist forest enclaves on the region's mountains and plateaus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyPlantaginaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 48
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- Collections
- UFPB, ESALQ, IPA, UFPE, INMA, JBRJ
- Recorded in
- Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Scrophulariaceae
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- taxon name
- Ameroglossum
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Ameroglossum
- Commons category
- Ameroglossum
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ameroglossum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Scrophulariaceae. It includes nine species native to northeastern Brazil, where they grow in moist forest enclaves on the region's mountains and plateaus.
Ameroglossum pernambucense is endemic to the Borborema Plateau in Pernambuco, and Ameroglossum manoel-felixii is found in Paraíba. The species are threatened by drought, fires, quarrying, trampling and cattle pasturing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ameroglossum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.