Biology:Puffia

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Short description: Genus of plants


Puffia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Palicoureeae
Genus: Puffia
Razafim. & B.Bremer
Species:
P. gerrardii
Binomial name
Puffia gerrardii
(Baker) Razafim. & B.Bremer
Synonyms
  • Geophila gerrardii Baker
  • Carinta gerrardii (Baker) Bremek.

Puffia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Puffia gerrardii, which is restricted to the littoral forests of southeastern Madagascar .[1]

References

  1. "Phylogeny and generic limits in the sister tribes Psychotrieae and Palicoureeae (Rubiaceae): Evolution of schizocarps in Psychotria and origins of bacterial leaf nodules of the Malagasy species". American Journal of Botany 101 (7): 1102–1126. 2014. doi:10.3732/ajb.1400076. PMID 25049266. 

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