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Lavoisiera
Microlicia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to northern South America, particularly Brazil. They tend to be subshrubs.
Microlicia was first described by David Don in 1823. In 2021 Versiane et al. discovered that Microlicia was paraphyletic, and expended it to include the related genera Chaetostoma, Lavoisiera, Stenodon, and Trembleya. The newly circumscribed genus, with 276 species, is one of the largest in family Melastomataeae. The genus name Trembleya was in honour of Abraham Trembley (1710–1784) a Genevan naturalist, Jean Trembley (1704–1785), a Swiss mathematician, and also Jacques-André Trembley (1714–1763), a Swiss botanist.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Lavoisiera imbricata
speciesLavoisiera imbricata
Lavoisiera tetragona
speciesLavoisiera tetragona
Lavoisiera alba
speciesLavoisiera alba
Lavoisiera itambana
speciesLavoisiera itambana
Lavoisiera grandiflora
speciesLavoisiera grandiflora
Lavoisiera glandulifera
speciesLavoisiera glandulifera
Lavoisiera pulchella
speciesLavoisiera pulchella
Lavoisiera crassifolia
speciesLavoisiera crassifolia
Lavoisiera confertiflora
speciesLavoisiera confertiflora
Lavoisiera cordata
speciesLavoisiera cordata
Lavoisiera subulata
speciesLavoisiera subulata
Lavoisiera caryophyllea
speciesLavoisiera caryophyllea
Lavoisiera canastrensis
speciesLavoisiera canastrensis
Lavoisiera pohliana
speciesLavoisiera pohliana
Lavoisiera angustifolia
speciesLavoisiera angustifolia
Lavoisiera nervulosa
speciesLavoisiera nervulosa
Lavoisiera quinquenervis
speciesLavoisiera quinquenervis
Lavoisiera fragilis
speciesLavoisiera fragilis
Lavoisiera compta
speciesLavoisiera compta
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 356182.