Cyrtogonone

Cyrtogonone
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Aleuritideae
Subtribe: Crotonogyninae
Genus: Cyrtogonone
Prain
Binomial name
Cyrtogonone argentea
(Pax) Prain
Synonyms[1]

Crotonogyne argentea Pax

Cyrtogonone is a genus of shrubs or trees of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), first described as a genus in 1911.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Cyrtogonone argentea, native to tropical central Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea).[1][4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Prain, David. 1911. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1911: 231-232 descriptions in Latin, commentary and geographic information in English
  3. Tropicos, Cyrtogonone Prain
  4. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.


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