''Streptocarpus albus'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
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 ...
in the family
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with ...
, native to
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...
.
[ It was first described in 1933 as ''Saintpaulia alba''.][ It is found in the ]Uluguru
The Uluguru mountains are a mountain range in eastern Tanzania, named after the Luguru tribe. The main portion of the Uluguru mountains is a ridge running roughly north-south and rising to altitude at its highest point. On the main Uluguru rang ...
and Nguru Nguru may refer to:
* Pila Nguru, an aboriginal people of Australia
* Nguru (flute), a small Māori nose flute from New Zealand
* Nguru, Nigeria, a town and LGA in Yobe State
* Hadejia-Nguru wetlands, northern Nigeria
* Nguru Lake, a lake whic ...
mountains of Tanzania.[
]
References
albus
Albus may refer to:
* Albus (surname)
* Albinus (cognomen), or Albus, a Latin surname
* Albus (coin), ''groschen'' coin of the Holy Roman Empire
* Albus, a Geomantic figure
* 'Albus', a cultivar of Rosemary
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Endemic flora of Tanzania
Plants described in 1933
Flora of the Eastern Arc forests
Taxa named by Eileen Adelaide Bruce
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