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Fagopyrum snowdenii is a species of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygonaceae. It is a climbing subshrub native to central and eastern tropical Africa, ranging from Cameroon to Sudan and Tanzania.
The species was first described in 1926 by John Hutchinson and James Edgar Dandy in 1926, and placed in the newly-described monotypic genus Harpagocarpus as Harpagocarpus snowdenii. In 1988 Suk Pyo Hong placed it in the genus Fagopyrum as Fagopyrum snowdenii.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fagopyrum snowdenii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
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