''Rousseauxia'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s belonging to the family
Melastomataceae
Melastomataceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics (two-thirds of the genera are from the New World tropics) comprising c. 175 genera and c. 5115 known species. Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, s ...
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It is native to
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
.
The genus name of ''Rousseauxia'' is in honour of
Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux
Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux (27 July 1753 – 20 January 1838) was a French botanist and pteridologist. He was a contributor to the "Encyclopedia Botanique" of Lamarck, from 1783 to 1796.
Desrousseaux produced many works on new plant spe ...
(1753–1838), a French botanist and
pteridologist #REDIRECTFern
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pter ...
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It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 152 in 1828.
Known species
According to Kew:
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Rousseauxia andringitrensis''
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Rousseauxia aurata''
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Rousseauxia chrysophylla''
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Rousseauxia cistoides''
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Rousseauxia dionychoides''
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Rousseauxia glauca''
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Rousseauxia gracilis''
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Rousseauxia humbertii''
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Rousseauxia madagascariensis''
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Rousseauxia mandrarensis''
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Rousseauxia marojejensis''
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Rousseauxia minimifolia''
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Rousseauxia tamatavensis''
References
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Melastomataceae
Melastomataceae genera
Plants described in 1828
Endemic flora of Madagascar