Karomia Explained

Karomia is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae. The genus was introduced in 1932 by the botanist Paul Louis Amans Dop (1876–1954) in "French: Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle|italics=no" (Paris) ser. 2. 4: 1052, for the single species Karomia fragrans.^{[1] [2]} It is native to eastern and southern Africa, Madagascar, and Vietnam.^[3]

Species^[3]

1. Karomia fragrans Dop – Vietnam
2. Karomia gigas (Faden) Verdc. – Kenya, Tanzania
3. Karomia humbertii (Moldenke) R.Fern. – Madagascar
4. Karomia macrocalyx (Baker) R.Fern. – Madagascar
5. Karomia madagascariensis (Moldenke) R.Fern. – Madagascar
6. Karomia microphylla (Moldenke) R.Fern. – Madagascar
7. Karomia mira (Moldenke) R.Fern. – Madagascar
8. Karomia speciosa (Hutch. & Corbishley) R.Fern. – Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
9. Karomia tettensis (Klotzsch) R.Fern. – Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tropicos Name - Karomia Dop. www.tropicos.org. 2017-08-16.
2. Dop, P.. 1932. Un nouveau genre de Verbénacées. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. ser. 2. 4. 8. 1052.
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=105581 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families