Rousseauxia
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Rousseauxia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Melastomataceae |
Genus: | Rousseauxia DC. |
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It is native to Madagascar.[1]
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]