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Tennantia

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Tennantia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It only contains one known species, Tennantia sennii

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  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderGentianales
  5. FamilyRubiaceae

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Rubiaceae
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Tennantia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It only contains one known species, Tennantia sennii

==Description== It is a shrub, tall, with whitish stems that are puberulous when young. The leaf-blades are elliptic to narrowly obovate in shape. They are long and wide. With rounded and sometimes minutely apiculate at the apex, glabrous or puberulous; stipules are long. Calyx with limb-tube about long, with lobes about long. The corolla is white or tinged pink; with the perianth tube long; the lobes are about long. The fruit (or seed capsule) is black, in diameter and glabrous. The seeds are about long.

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