''Mwasumbia'' is a
monotypic genus of
flowering plants belonging to the family
Annonaceae. The only known species is ''Mwasumbia alba''.
It is native to Tanzania.
The genus name of ''Mwasumbia'' is in honour of Leonard B. Mwasumbi (b.1938), a Tanzanian botanist, plant taxonomist, specialist in Tanzanian flora, and former head of the
Herbarium
A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...
at the
University of Dar es Salaam.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Thomas Louis Pierre Couvreur and
David Mark Johnson in Syst. Bot. vol.34 (Issue 2) on page 268 and 270 in 2009.
The Latin
specific epithet
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''alba'' (of the species) means “white”,
referring to the white flowers.
References
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Annonaceae
Annonaceae genera
Monotypic magnoliid genera
Flora of Tanzania