Telfairia Hook.
First published in Bot. Mag. 54: t. 2751 (1827)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical Africa, Comoros, Madagascar.
Distribution
Native to:
Benin, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Comoros, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Mauritius, Zambia
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Joliffia Bojer ex Delile in Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 3: 314 (1827)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 2: 523.
Flora Zambesiaca
- in Curtis, Bot. Mag. 54: t. 2751 & 2752 (1827).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- in Bot. Mag. 54, t. 2751 & 2752 (1 July 1827)
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Flora Zambesiaca
- Flora Zambesiaca
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0