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Ruizia parviflora

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Mauritius (Mt. Corps de Garde)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Ruizia parviflora is a very rare shrub from the family Malvaceae. It is endemic to Mauritius.

The species was first described as Trochetia parviflora in 1877. It was renamed in 2020 when genus Trochetia was subsumed into genus Ruizia.

Other Ruizia plants

Ruizia rosea · Ruizia boutoniana · Ruizia cordata · Ruizia · Trochetia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ruizia parviflora 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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