Mesanthemum Africanum

''Mesanthemum'' is a genus of plants in the Eriocaulaceae, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

#'' Mesanthemum africanum'' Moldenke - Mozambique, Zimbabwe
#''Mesanthemum albidum'' Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone
#'' Mesanthemum angustitepalum'' Kimp - Zaïre
#''Mesanthemum auratum'' Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau
#''Mesanthemum bennae'' Jacq.-Fél - Guinea
#''Mesanthemum cupricola'' Kimp - Zaïre
#''Mesanthemum glabrum'' Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia
#''Mesanthemum jaegeri'' Jacq.-Fél - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville
#''Mesanthemum pilosum'' Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi
#''Mesanthemum prescottianum'' (Bong.) Körn. - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon
#''Mesanthemum pubescens'' (Lam.) Körn. - Madagascar
#''Mesanthemum radicans'' (Benth.) Körn. - widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique
#''Mesanthemum reductum'' H.E.Hess - Congo-Brazzaville, Angola
#''Mesanthemum rutenbergianum'' Körn. - Madagascar
#''Mesanthemum variabile'' Kimp - Zaïre, Zambia

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Eriocaulaceae
Taxa named by Friedrich August Körnicke