Heywoodia

Heywoodia lucens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Tribe: Wielandieae
Genus: Heywoodia
Sim
Species: H. lucens
Binomial name
Heywoodia lucens
Sim

Heywoodia is a genus of plants in the Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1907.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Heywoodia lucens, native to eastern, southeastern, and southern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Cape Province).[3]

References

  1. Thomas Robertson Sim. 1907. Forests and Forest Flora of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 326
  2. Tropicos, Heywoodia T. R. Sim
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families


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