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Roussea
| Roussea | |
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| Drawing from Iconographia generum plantarum, F. Beck, 1838 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Rousseaceae |
| Subfamily: | Rousseoideae Horan. |
| Genus: | Roussea Sm. |
| Species: | R. simplex
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| Binomial name | |
| Roussea simplex | |
Roussea simplex is a woody climber of 4–6 m high, that is endemic to the mountain forest of Mauritius. It is the only species of the genus Roussea, which is assigned to the family Rousseaceae. It has opposing, entire, obovate, green leaves, with modest teeth towards the tip and mostly pentamerous, drooping flowers with yellowish recurved tepals, and a purse-shaped orange corolla with strongly recurved narrowly triangular lobes.[1]
- ^ Koontz, J.A.; Lundberg, J.; Soltis, D.E. (2007), "Rousseaceae", in Professor Dr. Joachim W. Kadereit; Charles Jeffrey (eds.), Flowering Plants·Eudicots·Asterales, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol. 8, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-31051-8, ISBN 978-3-540-31050-1
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