Rousseauxia Explained

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

It is native to Madagascar. 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:

• Rousseauxia andringitrensis
• Rousseauxia aurata
• Rousseauxia chrysophylla
• Rousseauxia cistoides
• Rousseauxia dionychoides
• Rousseauxia glauca
• Rousseauxia gracilis
• Rousseauxia humbertii
• Rousseauxia madagascariensis
• Rousseauxia mandrarensis
• Rousseauxia marojejensis
• Rousseauxia minimifolia
• Rousseauxia tamatavensis

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rousseauxia DC. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 26 May 2021 . en.
2. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 187926901 . 1 January 2021.