Paraboea are a genus of flowering plants in the African violet family Gesneriaceae, native to southern China (including Taiwan and Hainan), Assam, Indochina, and Malesia. They were recircumscribed from Boea in 2016.[3]

Paraboea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Subfamily: Didymocarpoideae
Genus: Paraboea
(C.B.Clarke) Ridl. (1905)[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Buxiphyllum W.T.Wang & C.Z.Gao
  • Chlamydoboea Stapf
  • Dichiloboea Stapf
  • Phylloboea Benth.
  • Trisepalum C.B.Clarke

Species

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Currently accepted species include:[2]

References

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  1. ^ J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 44: 63 (1905)
  2. ^ a b "Paraboea (C.B.Clarke) Ridl". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  3. ^ Puglisi, Carmen; Yao, Tze Leong; Milne, Richard; Möller, Michael; Middleton, David J. (2016). "Generic recircumscription in the Loxocarpinae (Gesneriaceae), as inferred by phylogenetic and morphological data". Taxon. 65 (2): 277–292. doi:10.12705/652.5. hdl:20.500.11820/695626ba-ab62-4b4a-963a-9249015ba212.