Fagopyrum snowdenii

Fagopyrum snowdenii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Polygonaceae
Genus:	Fagopyrum
Species:	F. snowdenii
Binomial name
	Fagopyrum snowdenii; (Hutch. & Dandy) S.P.Hong
Synonyms
	Harpagocarpus snowdenii Hutch. & Dandy (1926) (basionym); Fagopyrum ciliatum Jacq.-Fél.;

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Fagopyrum snowdenii is a species of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygonaceae. It is a climbing subshrub native to central and eastern tropical Africa, ranging from Cameroon to Sudan and Tanzania.^[1]

The species was first described in 1926 by John Hutchinson and James Edgar Dandy in 1926, and placed in the newly-described monotypic genus Harpagocarpus as Harpagocarpus snowdenii. In 1988 Suk Pyo Hong placed it in the genus Fagopyrum as Fagopyrum snowdenii.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Fagopyrum snowdenii (Hutch. & Dandy) S.P.Hong | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:945916-1.

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[powo-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Fagopyrum snowdenii (Hutch. & Dandy) S.P.Hong | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:945916-1.

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Fagopyrum snowdenii

Topic: Biology

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