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Tetroncium
Sign in to saveTetroncium is a genus of plants in the Juncaginaceae described as a genus in 1808. It contains only one known species, Tetroncium magellanicum, known from a few sub-Antarctic islands: Tierra Del Fuego (Chile and Argentina), Falkland Islands, and Gough Island. The plant got the name magellanicum because the original description was describing the sample found near the Strait of Magellan.
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Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Tetroncium, and connects out to Chile, Argentina and plant.
It sits within the topics Flora of Gough Island, Flora of Southern America and Flora of the Falkland Islands.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAlismatales
- FamilyJuncaginaceae
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Tetroncium is a genus of plants in the Juncaginaceae described as a genus in 1808. It contains only one known species, Tetroncium magellanicum, known from a few sub-Antarctic islands: Tierra Del Fuego (Chile and Argentina), Falkland Islands, and Gough Island. The plant got the name magellanicum because the original description was describing the sample found near the Strait of Magellan.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tetroncium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.