Duboscia

Duboscia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Grewioideae
Genus: Duboscia
Bocq.
Species

Duboscia macrocarpa Bocq.
Duboscia viridiflora (K. Schum) Mildbr.

Duboscia is a small genus, with two species, in the Malvaceae. The genus occurs from the Ivory Coast to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The genus was previously in the Tiliaceae, under the APG classification it is now placed in the Malvaceae.

The genus was first described by Henri Théophile Bocquillon in 1866.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bocquillon, H. T. in Baillon, H. E., (1866), Adansonia 7:50