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Sematophyllum
Sign in to saveSematophyllum is the type genus of the family Sematophyllaceae. It contains about 170 species. Sematophyllum was described by William Mitten in 1864.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,760
- With media
- 748
- Family
- Sematophyllaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, FLAS, TENN, IE-UNAM, LSU, MEL
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Venezuela, India, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Japan, Costa Rica
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Morphology
- Range
- Position within the family
- References
Sematophyllum is the type genus of the family Sematophyllaceae. It contains about 170 species. Sematophyllum was described by William Mitten in 1864.
Sematophyllum demissum was designated as the type species by Max Fleischer in 1923.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sematophyllum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.