Mesanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Eriocaulaceae, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.[ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.]
Species
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Mesanthemum africanum Moldenke - Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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Mesanthemum albidum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone
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Mesanthemum angustitepalum Kimp - Zaïre
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Mesanthemum auratum Lecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau
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Mesanthemum bennae Jacq.-Fél - Guinea
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Mesanthemum cupricola Kimp - Zaïre
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Mesanthemum glabrum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia
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Mesanthemum jaegeri Jacq.-Fél - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville
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Mesanthemum pilosum Kimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi
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Mesanthemum prescottianum (Bong.) Körn. - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon
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Mesanthemum pubescens (Lam.) Körn. - Madagascar
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Mesanthemum radicans (Benth.) Körn. - widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique
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Mesanthemum reductum H.E.Hess - Congo-Brazzaville, Angola
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Mesanthemum rutenbergianum Körn. - Madagascar
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Mesanthemum variabile Kimp - Zaïre, Zambia
