Malvaceae

Christiana DC.

First published in Prodr. 1: 516 (1824)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is SE. Mexico to S. Tropical America, Tropical Africa, Madagascar.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Belize, Benin, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Venezuela, Zaïre

Extinct in:

Society Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 1: 241.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • G.F.P. 2: 490 (1967), as ‘ Christiania ’
  • Prodr. 1: 516 (1824)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0