Tapura arachnoidea
Encyclopedia
Tapura arachnoidea is a species of plant
in the Dichapetalaceae
family. It is endemic to Gabon
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Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
in the Dichapetalaceae
Dichapetalaceae
Dichapetalaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 3 genera and about 165 species. Members of this family are trees, shrubs or lianas found in tropical and subtropical regions of the world....
family. It is endemic to Gabon
Gabon
Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...
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Source
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Tapura arachnoidea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2007.