Mesanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Eriocaulaceae, first described in 1856. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Species 16 species are accepted. Mesanthemum africanum Moldenke – Mozambique, Zimbabwe Mesanthemum albidum Lecomte – Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone Mesanthemum alenicola – Equatorial Guinea Mesanthemum angustitepalum Kimp – Zaïre Mesanthemum auratum Lecomte – Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau Mesanthemum bennae Jacq.-Fél – Guinea Mesanthemum cupricola Kimp – Zaïre Mesanthemum glabrum Kimp – Zaïre, Angola, Zambia Mesanthemum jaegeri Jacq.-Fél – Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville Mesanthemum pilosum Kimp – Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi Mesanthemum prescottianum (Bong.) Körn. – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon Mesanthemum pubescens (Lam.) Körn. – Madagascar Mesanthemum radicans (Benth.) Körn. – widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique Mesanthemum reductum H.E.Hess – Congo-Brazzaville, Angola Mesanthemum tuberosum Lecomte - Guinea Mesanthemum variabile Kimp – Zaïre, Zambia
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