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Genus of shrubs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lebronnecia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae.[4] The sole species is Lebronnecia kokioides, a very rare flowering shrub.
Lebronnecia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Subfamily: | Malvoideae |
Tribe: | Gossypieae |
Genus: | Lebronnecia Fosberg & Sachet (1966)[2] |
Species: | L. kokioides |
Binomial name | |
Lebronnecia kokioides | |
Only a few hundred specimens are known to exist. The plant was first described in 1966, after a single tree with a few seedlings was discovered on Tahuata, an island in the Marquesas group of French Polynesia that had been severely deforested by livestock: cattle, goats, horses, and pigs.
Further specimens were later found on the nearby island of Mohotani, uninhabited by humans, but similarly deforested by sheep, who seem to avoid eating the plant.[5]
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