Pellegrini, Marco Octavio de Oliveira;Faden, Robert B.;Almeida, Rafael Felipe de
Murdannia
Sign in to saveMurdannia is a genus of annual or perennial monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Commelinaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderCommelinales
- FamilyCommelinaceae
Native toAmur, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast
Observations recorded28,976
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 459
- With media
- 347
- Family
- Commelinaceae
- Collections
- US, MICH, IBUNAM, MEL
- Recorded in
- Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Thailand, Myanmar, El Salvador, Venezuela
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Murdannia is a genus of annual or perennial monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Commelinaceae.
The genus is one of the largest in the family. They are most easily distinguished from other genera in the family by their three-lobed or spear-shaped antherodes (i.e. non-functional anthers). Also it is the only genus with staminodes (i.e. non-functional stamens) opposite the petals.
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