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Fritzschia
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Fritzschia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil. They are sprawling or erect shrubs, with their branchlets and their hypanthia coated with either glandular or villose trichomes.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMyrtales
- FamilyMelastomataceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 35
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Collections
- CAS, NY, UFRGS, UCS, USP-IB, FPMZB
- Recorded in
- Brazil, Brasil
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Fritzschia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil. They are sprawling or erect shrubs, with their branchlets and their hypanthia coated with either glandular or villose trichomes.
==Species== Species accepted by Plants of the World Online were: Fritzschia anisostemon Cham. Fritzschia furnensis R.Romero & M.J.Rocha Fritzschia erecta Cham. Fritzschia integrifolia Cham.
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