Duboscia is a small plant genus, with two species, in the family Malvaceae. The genus occurs from the Ivory Coast to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The genus was previously in the Tiliaceae, under the APG classification it is now placed in the Malvaceae.

Duboscia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Grewioideae
Genus: Duboscia
Bocq.
Species

The genus was first described by Henri Théophile Bocquillon in 1866.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Bocquillon, H. T. in Baillon, H. E., (1866), Adansonia 7:50