Labourdonnaisia

Labourdonnaisia
Labourdonnaisia glauca at Vallée de Ferney, Mauritius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Subfamily: Sapotoideae
Genus: Labourdonnaisia
Bojer
Synonyms[1]

Labourdonneia Bojer

Labourdonnaisia is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae found in tropical Asia, described as a genus in 1841.[2][3]

Labourdonnaisia is native to certain islands in the Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion).[1][4]

The genus is named for Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699 – 1753), French governor of Mauritius 1735-1740.[5]

species[1]
  1. Labourdonnaisia calophylloides Bojer ("Bois de Natte a Petites Feuilles") - Mauritius, Réunion
  2. Labourdonnaisia glauca Bojer ("Bois de Natte a Grandes Feuilles") - Mauritius
  3. Labourdonnaisia lecomtei Aubrév. - Madagascar
  4. Labourdonnaisia madagascariensis Pierre ex Baill. - Madagascar
  5. Labourdonnaisia revoluta Bojer - Mauritius
  6. Labourdonnaisia richardiana Pierre ex Aubrév. - Madagascar
  7. Labourdonnaisia thouarsii Pierre ex Dubard - Madagascar
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References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Bojer, Wenceslas. 1841. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 9: 295-300 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French, line drawings as illustrations
  3. Tropicos, Labourdonnaisia Bojer
  4. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. Bojer, Wenceslas. 1837. Hortus Mauritianus :ou enumeration des plantes, exotiques et indigenes, qui croissent a l'Ile Maurice, disposees d'apres la methode naturelle 199


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