Mwasumbia
Genus of plants
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Mwasumbia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae. The only known species is Mwasumbia alba.[1]
| Mwasumbia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Genus: | Mwasumbia Couvreur & D.M.Johnson |
| Species: | M. alba |
| Binomial name | |
| Mwasumbia alba Couvreur & D.M.Johnson | |
It is native to Tanzania.[1]
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 at the University of Dar es Salaam.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by Thomas Louis Pierre Couvreur and David Mark Johnson in Syst. Bot. vol.34 (Issue 2) on page 268 and 270 in 2009.[1]
The Latin specific epithet alba (of the species) means “white”,[3] referring to the white flowers.