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Foetidia
Foetidia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1788.
Most authors place the genus in the family Lecythidaceae, the sole genus in the subfamily Foetidioideae, but some prefer to treat it as a distinct family, the Foetidiaceae. It is native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.
18 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Foetidia mauritiana
speciesFoetidia mauritiana
Foetidia retusa
speciesFoetidia retusa
Foetidia obliqua
speciesFoetidia obliqua
Foetidia dracaenoides
speciesFoetidia dracaenoides
Foetidia asymetrica
speciesFoetidia asymetrica
Foetidia comorensis
speciesFoetidia comorensis
Foetidia macrocarpa
speciesFoetidia macrocarpa
Foetidia clusioides
speciesFoetidia clusioides
Foetidia rodriguesiana
speciesFoetidia rodriguesiana
Foetidia sambiranensis
speciesFoetidia sambiranensis
Foetidia cuneata
speciesFoetidia cuneata
Foetidia vohemarensis
speciesFoetidia vohemarensis
Foetidia delphinensis
speciesFoetidia delphinensis
Foetidia parviflora
speciesFoetidia parviflora
Foetidia capuronii
speciesFoetidia capuronii
Foetidia pterocarpa
speciesFoetidia pterocarpa
Foetidia africana
speciesFoetidia africana
Foetidia rubescens
speciesFoetidia rubescens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 473249.