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Issue: Vol. 641 No. 2: 18 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-18
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.641.2.8
Page range: 170-176
Abstract views: 21
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A new species of the genus Wadithamnus (Amaranthaceae, Achyranthoid) from north-eastern Somalia

CSET (Herbarium FT), Dipartimento Biologia, Università degli studi di Firenze
Horn of Africa flora of Somalia new taxon taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of the hiterto monotypic genus Wadithamnus is described as new to science from two herbarium specimens housed at B and FT, collected in 1989 by B. Gabriel in Somalia, it is endemic to north-eastern Somalia and known so far only from the type collection.

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