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Plagianthus
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Plagianthus

Plagianthus is a genus of flowering plants confined to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. The familial placement of the genus was controversial for many years, but modern genetic studies show it definitely belongs in the Malvaceae subfamily Malvoideae. The name means "slanted flowers".

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Lowland ribbonwood

speciesPlagianthus regius

Makaka

speciesPlagianthus divaricatus

Lowland × saltmarsh ribbonwood hybrid

hybridPlagianthus × cymosus

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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 184983.