Visnea
Monotypic genus of flowering plants
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Visnea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in family Pentaphylacaceae.[4] The genus contains a single species, Visnea mocanera a tree native to the Canary Islands and Madeira.[2]
| Visnea | |
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| Visnea mocanera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Pentaphylacaceae |
| Genus: | Visnea L.f. (1782) |
| Species: | V. mocanera |
| Binomial name | |
| Visnea mocanera L.f. (1782) | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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The fruits of the tree (known as Mocan) are edible.[5][6]
The genus name of Visnea is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal.[7] The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782, and published in Suppl. Pl. on page 36.[2]
Note; Visnea Steud. ex Endl. is a synonym of Barbacenia, a genus in a different family.[8]
