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Tessmannia
Sign in to saveTessmannia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Most species are native to Tropical Africa, and are found in the countries of Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe. Tessmannia princeps is native to Tanzania.
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Tessmannia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Most species are native to Tropical Africa, and are found in the countries of Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe. Tessmannia princeps is native to Tanzania.
The genus name of Tessmannia is in honour of Günther Tessmann (1884–1969), a German-Brazilian ethnologist and botanist. He was also an African explorer and plant collector, who later settled in Brazil. It was first described and published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. Vol.45 on page 295 in 1910.