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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Floscopa scandens.JPG
|image_caption = ''[[Floscopa scandens]]''
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Floscopa
|authority = [[Lour.]]
|synonyms_ref = <ref name=tammy/>
|synonyms = * ''Dithyrocarpus'' <small>Kunth</small>
}}
'''''Floscopa''''' is a genus of [[plant]]s in the family [[Commelinaceae]] first described in 1790. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical areas: [[Africa]], [[Madagascar]], the [[Indian Subcontinent]], [[Southeast Asia]], [[China]], [[Queensland]], [[Central America|Central]] + [[South America]].<ref name=tammy>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=246159 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=112882 Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 24 聚花草属 ju hua cao shu Floscopa Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 1: 189, 192. 1790. ]</ref><ref>Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil {{cite web|url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-08-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ |archivedate=2015-09-06 }}. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro</ref>
; Species<ref name=tammy/>
* ''[[Floscopa africana]]'' <small>(P.Beauv.) C.B.Clarke</small> - from Liberia east to Uganda
* ''[[Floscopa aquatica]]'' <small>Hua</small> - from Sierra Leone + Mali east to Gabon
* ''[[Floscopa axillaris]]'' <small>(Poir.) C.B.Clarke</small> - West Africa from Senegal to Benin
* ''[[Floscopa confusa]]'' <small>Brenan</small> - from Ivory Coast to Tanzania
* ''[[Floscopa elegans]]'' <small>Huber</small> - Ecuador, Peru, northwestern Brazil
* ''[[Floscopa flavida]]'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small> - from Senegal to Tanzania and south to Botswana
* ''[[Floscopa glabrata]]'' <small>(Kunth) Hassk.</small> - Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica; naturalized in Vietnam
* ''[[Floscopa glomerata]]'' <small>(Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Hassk.</small> - most of sub-Saharan Africa; Madagascar
* ''[[Floscopa gossweileri]]'' <small>Cavaco</small> - Angola
* ''[[Floscopa leiothyrsa]]'' <small>Brenan</small> - Mali, Chad, Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana
* ''[[Floscopa mannii]]'' <small>[[Charles Baron Clarke|C.B.Clarke]]</small> - from Nigeria to Zaïre
* ''[[Floscopa perforans]]'' <small>Rusby</small> - Bolivia
* ''[[Floscopa peruviana]]'' <small>Hassk. ex C.B.Clarke</small> - Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guinea
* ''[[Floscopa polypleura]]'' <small>Brenan</small> - Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia
* ''[[Floscopa rivularioides]]'' <small>T.C.E.Fr.</small> - Zimbabwe
* ''[[Floscopa robusta]]'' <small>(Seub.) C.B.Clarke</small>  - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Central America
* ''[[Floscopa scandens]]'' <small>Lour.</small> - China, Indian Subcontinent, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Indochina, Malaysia, western Indonesia, Philippines, Queensland
* ''[[Floscopa schweinfurthii]]'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small> - Tanzania
* ''[[Floscopa tanneri]]'' <small>Brenan</small> - Zaïre, Tanzania
* ''[[Floscopa yunnanensis]]'' <small>D.Y.Hong</small> - Yunnan Province in China
==References==
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[[Category:Commelinales genera]]
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