''Thurnia'' is a group of
herbaceous plants
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent wood, woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennial plant, perennials, and nearly all Annual plant, annuals and Biennial plant, biennials.
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described as a genus in 1883.
[Tropicos, ''Thurnia'' Hook. f.]
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''Thurnia'' is native to northern South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
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/ref>[Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.]
; Species[
* '' Thurnia jenmanii'' Hook.f. - Guyana
* '' Thurnia polycephala'' Schnee - SE Colombia, S Venezuela, N Brazil
* '' Thurnia sphaerocephala'' (Rudge) Hook.f. - Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, S Venezuela, N Brazil
]
References
Poales genera
Thurniaceae
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