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Tessmannia
Tessmannia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Most species are native to Tropical Africa, and are found in the countries of Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe. Tessmannia princeps is native to Tanzania.
The genus name of Tessmannia is in honour of Günther Tessmann (1884–1969), a German-Brazilian ethnologist and botanist. He was also an African explorer and plant collector, who later settled in Brazil. It was first described and published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. Vol.45 on page 295 in 1910.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Tessmannia baikiaeoides
speciesTessmannia baikiaeoides
Tessmannia princeps
speciesTessmannia princeps
Tessmannia anomala
speciesTessmannia anomala
Tessmannia densiflora
speciesTessmannia densiflora
Tessmannia martiniana
speciesTessmannia martiniana
Tessmannia africana
speciesTessmannia africana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 138490.