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Brassaiopsis

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2022
Entity authorityQ6321101
Source-derived summary

Brassaiopsis is a genus of shrubs in the family Araliaceae. There are about 45 species, distributed in Asia from the Himalaya through China, Vietnam, Thailand to Indonesia.

Species

Species include:

Brassaiopsis aculeata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Seem.

Brassaiopsis acuminata H.L.Li

Brassaiopsis andamanica R.N.Banerjee

Brassaiopsis angustifolia K.M.Feng

Brassaiopsis bodinieri (H.Lév.) J.Wen & Lowry

Brassaiopsis calcarea Craib

Brassaiopsis castaneifolia Philipson

Brassaiopsis chengkangensis Hu

Brassaiopsis ciliata Dunn

Brassaiopsis dumicola W.W.Sm.

Brassaiopsis elegans Ridl.

Brassaiopsis fatsioides Harms

Brassaiopsis ferruginea (H.L.Li) G.Hoo

Brassaiopsis ficifolia Dunn

Brassaiopsis ficifolioides J.Wen & Lowry

Brassaiopsis floribunda (Miq.) Seem.

Brassaiopsis gigantea J.Wen & Lowry

Brassaiopsis glomerulata (Blume) Regel

Brassaiopsis gracilis Hand.-Mazz.

Brassaiopsis griffithii C.B.Clarke

Brassaiopsis grushvitzkyi J.Wen, Lowry & T.H.Nguyên

Brassaiopsis hainla (Buch.-Ham.) Seem.

Brassaiopsis hispida Seem.

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This entry incorporates text from Brassaiopsis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.