Mesanthemum Explained

Mesanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Eriocaulaceae, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.[1] [2]

Species

  1. Mesanthemum africanum Moldenke - Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  2. Mesanthemum albidum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone
  3. Mesanthemum angustitepalum Kimp - Zaïre
  4. Mesanthemum auratum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau
  5. Mesanthemum bennae Jacq.-Fél - Guinea
  6. Mesanthemum cupricola Kimp - Zaïre
  7. Mesanthemum glabrum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia
  8. Mesanthemum jaegeri Jacq.-Fél - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville
  9. Mesanthemum pilosum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi
  10. Mesanthemum prescottianum (Bong.) Körn. - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon
  11. Mesanthemum pubescens (Lam.) Körn. - Madagascar
  12. Mesanthemum radicans (Benth.) Körn. - widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique
  13. Mesanthemum reductum H.E.Hess - Congo-Brazzaville, Angola
  14. Mesanthemum rutenbergianum Körn. - Madagascar
  15. Mesanthemum variabile Kimp - Zaïre, Zambia

Notes and References

  1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=254359 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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