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Kraussia

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Kraussia is a flowering plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. Apart from a species in Socotra, they are native to continental Africa. The type was described from a plant collected by Dr. F. Krauss near Durban. It is differentiated from Tricalysia and Empogona by the ovule arrangement inside the ovary cells. The genus contains between 4 and 10 species, including:

Species

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Genus

  1. PhylumArthropoda
  2. ClassMalacostraca
  3. OrderDecapoda
  4. FamilyXanthidae
Habitatmarine
Observations6,579

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
39
With media
20
Family
Xanthidae
Collections
USNM, MO, UPS, AM, WAM, NHMUK
Recorded in
Tonga, Mozambique, Tanzania, Australia, Kenya, Philippines, South Africa

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Rubiaceae
Image
Kraussia floribunda 1DS-II 3-1881.jpg
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taxon name
Kraussia
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Kraussia
Commons category
Kraussia (Rubiaceae)
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Kraussia is a flowering plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. Apart from a species in Socotra, they are native to continental Africa. The type was described from a plant collected by Dr. F. Krauss near Durban. It is differentiated from Tricalysia and Empogona by the ovule arrangement inside the ovary cells. The genus contains between 4 and 10 species, including: Kraussia floribunda Harv. (1842) Kraussia kirkii (Hook.f.) Bullock Kraussia socotrana Bridson Kraussia speciosa Bullock

== References ==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kraussia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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