Tricomaria usillo Hook. & Arn. is a plant in the Malpighiaceae family, order Malpighiales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Tricomaria usillo Hook. & Arn.

Tricomaria usillo Hook. & Arn.

Tricomaria usillo is the only species in the Tricomaria genus of the Malpighiaceae family, native to dry areas of eastern Andean western Argentina.

Family
Genus
Tricomaria
Order
Malpighiales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Tricomaria usillo Hook. & Arn.

Tricomaria is a genus belonging to the Malpighiaceae plant family. The Malpighiaceae family is part of the order Malpighiales, and contains approximately 75 genera of flowering plants. Tricomaria contains only a single species: Tricomaria usillo Hook. & Arn. This species grows in dry vegetation habitats in western Argentina, on the eastern slope of the Andes mountains.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Malpighiales Malpighiaceae Tricomaria

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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