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Brownea leucantha, called roso blanco, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Brownea, native to Peru and Venezuela.[2] It is the emblematic state tree of Miranda, Venezuela. It can be distinguished from other members of its genus by its white flowers.[3]
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Genus: | Brownea |
Species: | B. leucantha
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Binomial name | |
Brownea leucantha | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Hermesias leucantha Kuntze |
References
edit- ^ Fragm. Bot.: 26 (1800)
- ^ a b "Brownea leucantha Jacq". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Silverstone-Sopkin, Philip A. (2010). "A New Species of Browneopsis (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae) from the Cauca Valley, Colombia". Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature. 20 (2): 207–211. doi:10.3417/2008100. JSTOR 40856293. S2CID 85144345.