''Mesanthemum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

Eriocaulaceae The Eriocaulaceae are a family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the order Poales, commonly known as the pipewort family. The family is large, with about 1207 known species described in seven genera. They are widely distri ...

, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical

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and

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.Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Species

#'' Mesanthemum africanum'' Moldenke - Mozambique, Zimbabwe #'' Mesanthemum albidum'' Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone #'' Mesanthemum angustitepalum'' Kimp - Zaïre #'' Mesanthemum auratum'' Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau #'' Mesanthemum bennae'' Jacq.-Fél - Guinea #'' Mesanthemum cupricola'' Kimp - Zaïre #'' Mesanthemum glabrum'' Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia #'' Mesanthemum jaegeri'' Jacq.-Fél - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville #'' Mesanthemum pilosum'' Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi #'' Mesanthemum prescottianum'' (Bong.) Körn. - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon #'' Mesanthemum pubescens'' (Lam.) Körn. - Madagascar #'' Mesanthemum radicans'' (Benth.) Körn. - widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique #'' Mesanthemum reductum'' H.E.Hess - Congo-Brazzaville, Angola #'' Mesanthemum rutenbergianum'' Körn. - Madagascar #'' Mesanthemum variabile'' Kimp - Zaïre, Zambia

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10328896 Eriocaulaceae Taxa named by Friedrich August Körnicke