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Leptonema
Sign in to saveLeptonema is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae first described in 1824. The entire genus is endemic to Madagascar. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.
Species
Genus
- PhylumOchrophyta
- ClassPhaeophyceae
- OrderEctocarpales
- FamilyChordariaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 190
- With media
- 220
- Family
- Hydropsychidae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, US, SDNHM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Germany, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Phyllanthaceae
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- taxon name
- Leptonema
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- genus
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Leptonema is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae first described in 1824. The entire genus is endemic to Madagascar. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. Species Leptonema glabrum (Leandri) Leandri Leptonema venosum (Poir.) A.Juss. formerly included moved to Flueggea Leptonema melanthesoides F.Muell. - Flueggea virosa subsp. melanthesoides (F.Muell.) G.L.Webster
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leptonema” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.