Trochetia
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Trochetia is a genus of flowering plants from the family Malvaceae (formerly in the Sterculiaceae, but this family is now usually subsumed in the Malvaceae). They are endemic to the Mascarene Islands.
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Trochetia | |
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Trochetia blackburniana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Subfamily: | Dombeyoideae |
Genus: | Trochetia DC, 1823 |
Species | |
Trochetia blackburniana |
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The genus was first described by A.P. de Candolle in 1823, who named it in honour of French botanist Henri Dutrochet.