Lecythidaceae
Foetidia

Foetidia obliqua Blume

First published in Mus. Bot. 1: 145 (1850)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania (Pemba Island), Madagascar. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Madagascar, Tanzania

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Prance, G.T. & Jongkind, C.C.H. (2015). A revision of African Lecythidaceae. Kew Bulletin 70(1; 6): 1-68.
  • Prance, G.T. (2008). A revision of Foetidia (Lecythidaceae subfamily Foetidioideae. Brittonia 60: 336-348.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Batavum 1: 145 (1850).
  • Grandidier, Hist. Nat. PL Madag., Atlas, t. 343 (1895).
  • Knuth in A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV. 219: 63 (1939).
  • Perrier de la Bêthie in Fl. Madag. 149: 7, t. 3/6–10 (1954).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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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 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 2023. 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