Mendoncia
Genus of flowering plants
Mendoncia | |
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Mendoncia hoffmannseggiana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Acanthaceae |
Subfamily: | Thunbergioideae |
Genus: | Mendoncia Vell. ex Vand. |
Species | |
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Mendoncia is a genus of climbing plants in the family Acanthaceae.
It is native to southeastern South America, Africa, and Madagascar. In South America, some of its species are endemic to Brazil in the Atlantic Forest and/or Cerrado ecoregions; in Africa the largest number of species is found in Cameroon and Gabon.
Species
Species include:
- Mendoncia coccinea Vell.
- Mendoncia combretoides (A. Chev. ex Hutchinson & Dalziel) Benoist[1]
- Mendoncia floribunda
- Mendoncia lindaviana (Gilg) Benoist[2]
- Mendocia lindavii Britton[3]
- Mendoncia mollis
- Mendoncia puberula
- Mendoncia velloziana Nees
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