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Datisca
Sign in to saveThe Datiscaceae are a family of dicotyledonous plants, containing two species of the genus Datisca. Two other genera, Octomeles and Tetrameles, are now classified in the family Tetramelaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCucurbitales
- FamilyDatiscaceae
Native toAfghanistan, California, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Mexico Northwest, Nepal, Nevada
Observations recorded3,733
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 24
- With media
- 21
- Family
- Datiscaceae
- Collections
- MO, MNHN, UPS, BRIT, VT
- Recorded in
- China, Turkey, United States
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The Datiscaceae are a family of dicotyledonous plants, containing two species of the genus Datisca. Two other genera, Octomeles and Tetrameles, are now classified in the family Tetramelaceae.
Datiscaceae are large herbaceous plants, with alternate and pinnate leaves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Datisca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.