''Kupea'' is a genus of
myco-heterotrophic 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 ...
s in family
Triuridaceae, native to tropical
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
. It contains the following species:
* ''
Kupea jonii''
Cheek - Ulanga District of Tanzania
* ''
Kupea martinetugei''
Cheek & S.A.Williams - Cameroon
References
Pandanales genera
Flora of Africa
Parasitic plants
Triuridaceae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Martin Cheek
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