''Marquesia'' 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 exclu ...
in family
Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Africa and can be found in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe.
It contains the following species:
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Marquesia acuminata''
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Marquesia excelsa''
* ''
Marquesia macroura''
The genus name of ''Marquesia'' is in honour of L. Marques, who was a Portuguese plant collector hunting in
Angola
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and
Mozambique
Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...
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The genus was
circumscribed
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by
Ernst Friedrich Gilg Ernest (or Ernst) Friedrich Gilg (12 January 1867 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany – 11 October 1933 in Berlin) was a German botanist.
Life
Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. With fellow botanist Adolf Engler, he co-authore ...
in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. vol.40 on page 485 in 1908.
References
Dipterocarpaceae
Malvales genera
Flora of South Tropical Africa
Flora of Equatorial Guinea
Flora of Gabon
Plants described in 1908
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