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Gerrardanthus
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Gerrardanthus

Gerrardanthus is a genus of flowering plants native to tropical Africa and South Africa, first described by William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), and named in honor of William Tyrer Gerrard (died 1866 in Mahavelona, Madagascar), botanical collector in Natal and Madagascar in the 1860s.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Gerrardanthus macrorhizus

speciesGerrardanthus macrorhizus

Gerrardanthus tomentosus

speciesGerrardanthus tomentosus

Gerrardanthus grandiflorus

speciesGerrardanthus grandiflorus

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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 576097.