Floscopa

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Floscopa is a genus of plants in the family Commelinaceae first described in 1790. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical areas: Africa, Madagascar, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, Queensland, Central + South America. ; Species * Floscopa africana (P.Beauv.) C.B.Clarke - from Liberia east to Uganda * Floscopa aquatica Hua - from Sierra Leone + Mali east to Gabon * Floscopa axillaris (Poir.) C.B.Clarke - West Africa from Senegal to Benin * Floscopa confusa Brenan - from Ivory Coast to Tanzania * Floscopa elegans Huber - Ecuador, Peru, northwestern Brazil * Floscopa flavida C.B.Clarke - from Senegal to Tanzania and south to Botswana * Floscopa glabrata (Kunth) Hassk. - Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica; naturalized in Vietnam * Floscopa glomerata (Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Hassk. - most of sub-Saharan Africa; Madagascar * Floscopa gossweileri Cavaco - Angola * Floscopa leiothyrsa Brenan - Mali, Chad, Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana * Floscopa mannii C.B.Clarke - from Nigeria to Zaïre * Floscopa perforans Rusby - Bolivia * Floscopa peruviana Hassk. ex C.B.Clarke - Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guinea * Floscopa polypleura Brenan - Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia * Floscopa rivularioides T.C.E.Fr.…

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