''Exacum'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
in family
Gentianaceae
Gentianaceae is a family of flowering plants of 103 genera and about 1600 species.
Etymology
The family takes its name from the genus '' Gentiana'', named after the Illyrian king Gentius.
Distribution
Distribution is cosmopolitan.
Characteri ...
. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
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Balf.f.
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxf ...
ex Regel
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Exacum axillare
''Exacum'' is a genus of plant in family Gentianaceae. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
* ''Exacum affine'' Balf.f. ex Regel
* '' Exacum axillare''
* '' Exacum bicolor''
* '' Exacum caeruleum'' Balf.f.
* '' Exac ...
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Exacum bicolor
''Exacum'' is a genus of plant in family Gentianaceae. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
* ''Exacum affine'' Balf.f. ex Regel
* ''Exacum axillare''
* ''Exacum bicolor''
* ''Exacum caeruleum'' Balf.f.
* ''Exacum l ...
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Exacum caeruleum
''Exacum caeruleum'' is a species of plant in the Gentianaceae family. It is endemic to Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by ve ...
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Balf.f.
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxf ...
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Exacum laxiflorum
''Exacum'' is a genus of plant in family Gentianaceae. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
* ''Exacum affine'' Balf.f. ex Regel
* ''Exacum axillare''
* ''Exacum bicolor''
* '' Exacum caeruleum'' Balf.f.
* '' Exacum ...
'' (Gamble) Geethakumary, Deepu, Kissling & Pandurangan
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Exacum pallidum
''Exacum'' is a genus of plant in family Gentianaceae. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
* ''Exacum affine'' Balf.f. ex Regel
* ''Exacum axillare''
* ''Exacum bicolor''
* ''Exacum caeruleum'' Balf.f.
* ''Exacum l ...
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Exacum pedunculatum
''Exacum'' is a genus of plant in family Gentianaceae. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
* ''Exacum affine'' Balf.f. ex Regel
* ''Exacum axillare''
* ''Exacum bicolor''
* ''Exacum caeruleum'' Balf.f.
* ''Exacum l ...
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Exacum sessile
''Exacum'' is a genus of plant in family Gentianaceae. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
* ''Exacum affine'' Balf.f. ex Regel
* ''Exacum axillare''
* ''Exacum bicolor''
* ''Exacum caeruleum'' Balf.f.
* ''Exacum l ...
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* ''
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Balf.f.
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxf ...
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Exacum tetragonum
''Exacum tetragonum'', the bicolor Persian violet, is a species of plant in the family Gentianaceae
Gentianaceae is a family of flowering plants of 103 genera and about 1600 species.
Etymology
The family takes its name from the genus '' Gent ...
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Exacum tinervium
''Exacum'' is a genus of plant in family Gentianaceae. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
* ''Exacum affine'' Balf.f. ex Regel
* ''Exacum axillare''
* ''Exacum bicolor''
* ''Exacum caeruleum'' Balf.f.
* ''Exacum l ...
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* ''
Exacum travancoricum
''Exacum travancoricum'' is one of the rare and threatened plants of western Ghats. It comes under family Gentianaceae. Moderately to much branched usually laxly cushion-like herb with elliptic, somewhat succulent leaves and usually solitary ter ...
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Exacum walkeri
''Exacum'' is a genus of plant in family Gentianaceae. It contains the following species (but this list is incomplete):
* ''Exacum affine'' Balf.f. ex Regel
* ''Exacum axillare''
* ''Exacum bicolor''
* ''Exacum caeruleum'' Balf.f.
* ''Exacum l ...
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References
Gentianaceae genera
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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