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Machaonia
Genus of flowering plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Machaonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 32 species.[1] All are indigenous to the neotropics.[2] None has a unique common name. Some species have been called "alfilerillo", a Spanish name for the common and well-known genus Erodium. The type species for Machaonia is Machaonia acuminata.[3]
Machaonia was named by Humboldt and Bonpland in 1806 in their book, Plantae Aequinoctiales.[4][5] This genus name is for Machaon, the son of Asclepias in Greek Mythology.
Phylogenetic studies of DNA sequences have shown that Machaonia is paraphyletic over Neoblakea and Allenanthus.[6]
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The following species list may be incomplete or contain synonyms.
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