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Humbertia
Sign in to saveHumbertia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Convolvulaceae (morning glory family). It only contains one species, Humbertia madagascariensis Lam. It is native to Madagascar. It is known in French as ; it is endemic to southeastern Madagascar where it occurs in humid evergreen forests at altitudes up to about .
Species
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Collections
- MO, ROM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Lebanon
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Humbertia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Convolvulaceae (morning glory family). It only contains one species, Humbertia madagascariensis Lam. It is native to Madagascar. It is known in French as ; it is endemic to southeastern Madagascar where it occurs in humid evergreen forests at altitudes up to about .
The genus name (Humbertia) is in honour of Philibert Commerson (1727–1773), a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769. The Latin specific epithet, madagascariensis, means coming from Madagascar. Both genus and species were first described and published by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in Encycl. Vol.2 on page 356 in 1786.
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