''Hugonia'' 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 the family
Linaceae
Linaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family is cosmopolitan, and includes about 250 species in 14 genera, classified into two subfamilies: the Linoideae and Hugonioideae (often recognized as a distinct family, the Hugoniaceae). Leaves of ...
. The genus was named by Linnaeus after Augustus Johann von Hugo (1686-1760) of Hannover.
Species include:
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Hugonia deplanchei''
* ''
Hugonia jenkinsii''
* ''
Hugonia macrophylla''
Oliv.
Daniel Oliver, FRS (6 February 1830, Newcastle upon Tyne – 21 December 1916) was an English botanist.
He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860–1890 and Keeper there from 1864–1890, and Professor of Botany at ...
* ''
Hugonia micans''
Engl.
* ''
Hugonia mystax
''Hugonia mystax'' is a species of plant in the family Linaceae found mainly in the dry forests of peninsular India and Sri Lanka. It is a scandent shrub, sometimes growing liana-like over other trees and bears yellow flowers and orange to red fr ...
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L.
* ''
Hugonia planchonii''
Hook.f.
References
Malpighiales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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