Peddiea
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Peddiea is a genus of plant
in family Thymelaeaceae
. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
in family Thymelaeaceae
Thymelaeaceae
Thymelaeaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera and 898 species. It was established in 1789 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.Thymelaeaceae is in the order Malvales...
. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):
- Peddiea kivuensisPeddiea kivuensisPeddiea kivuensis is a species of plant in the Thymelaeaceae family. It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Ndjele, M.B. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
, RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter RobynsFrans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of...