Burmanniaceae
Afrothismia

Afrothismia mhoroana Cheek

First published in Kew Bull. 60: 593 (2005 publ. 2006)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania (Morogoro). It is a holomycotrophic rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Tanzania

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Bulletin

  • - & Williams, S. (1999). A review of African saprophytic flowering plants. In: J. Timberlake  S. Kativu (eds.), African Plants: Biodiversity, Taxonomy & Uses: 39 - 49. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Brummitt, R. K. & Powell, C. E. (1992). Authors of plant names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Cheek, M. (2004). A new species of Afrothismia (Burmanniaceae) from Kenya. Kew Bull. 58: 951 - 955.
  • Cowley, E. J. (1988). Burmanniaceae. In: R. M. Polhill (ed.), Flora of Tropical East Africa. Balkema, Rotterdam.
  • Holmgren, P. K., Holmgren, N. H.  Barnett, L. C. (1990). Index Herbariorum. 8th ed. New York Botanical Garden.
  • IUCN (2001). IUCN Red List Categories: version 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.
  • Jannerup, P. (2003). Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) i Afrika; Del I. Plantegeografiske og floristiske noter og rapport om feltarbejdet i Uluguru Mts, Tanzania [Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) in Africa; Part I. Notes on the plant geography and floristics and report of the field work in Uluguru Mts, Tanzania]. MSc. Thesis (unpubl.) Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Polhill, D. (1988). Flora of Tropical East Africa. Index of Collecting Localities. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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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 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 Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/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