Cienfuegosia
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Cienfuegosia[1] is a genus of plants, in the family Malvaceae and placed in the tribe Gossypieae. Species can be found in central and south America, Africa including the Arabian peninsula.
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Flower of Cienfuegosia affinis | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Subfamily: | Malvoideae |
Tribe: | Gossypieae |
Genus: | Cienfuegosia Cav., 1786 |
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They are typically herbs with woody rootstocks, or small shrubs, usually with conspicuous glands. Leaves lobed or unlobed; stipules minute to large and leafy. Flowers are solitary in leaf axils or in 2-flowered cymes.