Rousseauxia

Rousseauxia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.[1]

Rousseauxia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Rousseauxia
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It is native to Madagascar.[1]

The genus name of Rousseauxia is in honour of Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux (1753–1838), a French botanist and pteridologist.[2] It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 152 in 1828.[1]

Known species

According to Kew:[1]

  • Rousseauxia andringitrensis (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia aurata (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia chrysophylla DC.
  • Rousseauxia cistoides Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia dionychoides (Cogn.) Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia glauca Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia gracilis Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia humbertii (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia madagascariensis (Cogn.) Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia mandrarensis (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia marojejensis Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia minimifolia (Jum. & H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.
  • Rousseauxia tamatavensis (H.Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.

References
  1. "Rousseauxia DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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