Helmholtzia

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Helmholtzia
Helmholtzia glaberrima
Helmholtzia glaberrima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Commelinales
Family: Philydraceae
Genus: Helmholtzia
F.Muell.
Species

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Helmholtzia is a small genus of flowering plants which are native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia, and New Guinea.

The genus was named for Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physician and physicist, by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1865.

Species include:

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