Pseudolmedia
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Genus: | Pseudolmedia |
Pseudolmedia is a flowering plant genus in the mulberry family (Moraceae). They are known in Latin America as lechechiva (approximately "goat's milk tree") and used for timber, construction wood, and sometimes in folk medicine.
Species include:
- Pseudolmedia hirtula
- Pseudolmedia laevis (Ruiz & Pav.) J.F.Macbr.
- Pseudolmedia manabiensis
References
- ^ The genus Pseudolmedia was first described and published in Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique, sér. 3 8: 129. 1847.: later, as no type had been designated by the genus authority, two lectotypes (P. ferruginea and P. havanensis) were designated as types. "Name - Pseudolmedia Trécul". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT). Retrieved December 30, 2012.
Type Specimens: LT: Pseudolmedia ferruginea (Poepp. & Endl.) Trécul; LT: Pseudolmedia havanensis Trécul