Feliciadamia
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| Feliciadamia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Melastomataceae |
| Genus: | Feliciadamia Bullock |
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Feliciadamia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae, it contains one species, Feliciadamia stenocarpa (Jacq.-Fél.) Bullock.[1]
Its native range is Guinea.[1]
The genus of Feliciadamia is a portmanteaux word, honouring both Henri Jacques-Félix (1907–2008), French naturalist at the National Museum of Natural History, and also Jaques-George Adam (1909–1980), French botanist and plant collector in France and Africa.[2] The specific epithet of stenocarpa is derived from the ancient Greek stenos (στενός), "narrow" and karpos (καρπός), "fruit".[3] It was first described and published in Kew Bull. Vol.15 on page 393 in 1962.[1]