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Isertia
Sign in to saveIsertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 15 species of shrubs or small trees that are indigenous to the neotropics. A few are cultivated as ornamentals.
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Vinony's link graph records 7 inbound references to Isertia, and connects out to Brazil, plant and tree.
It sits within the topics Rubiaceae genera and Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyRubiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 228
- With media
- 65
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Collections
- NY, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), US, F, UFPB, USF
- Recorded in
- Brazil, Colombia, Brasil, Guyana, Peru, Honduras, Panama
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Isertia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Isertia
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- Isertia
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Systematics
- Species
- References
Isertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 15 species of shrubs or small trees that are indigenous to the neotropics. A few are cultivated as ornamentals.
==Systematics== Isertia was named by Johann von Schreber in 1789. The generic name honors the German botanist and explorer Paul Erdmann Isert.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isertia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.