Feliciadamia

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Feliciadamia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae, it contains one species, Feliciadamia stenocarpa (Jacq.-Fél.) Bullock.[1]

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Feliciadamia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Feliciadamia
Bullock
Synonyms
  • Adamea Jacq.-Fél.
  • Adamia Jacq.-Fél.
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Its native range is Guinea.[1]

The genus of Feliciadamia is a portmanteaux word, honouring both Henri Jacques-Félix (1907–2008), French naturalist at the National Museum of Natural History, and also Jaques-George Adam (1909–1980), French botanist and plant collector in France and Africa.[2] The specific epithet of stenocarpa is derived from the ancient Greek stenos (στενός), "narrow" and karpos (καρπός), "fruit".[3] It was first described and published in Kew Bull. Vol.15 on page 393 in 1962.[1]

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