Dactyladenia

Dactyladenia
Dactyladenia cinerea herbarium specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Chrysobalanaceae
Genus: Dactyladenia
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Type species
Dactyladenia floribunda
Welw.
Synonyms[1]
  • Griffonia Hook.f. 1865, illegitimate homonym, not Baill. 1865 (Fabaceae)

Dactyladenia is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae. They are distributed in western and central Africa, from Liberia to Angola.[1] There are about 31 species.[2]

The genus was first described by Friedrich Welwitsch in his work Apontamentos Fito-geograficos sobre a Flora da Provincia de Angola na Africa Equinocial (1859).[3]

Species[1]
  1. Dactyladenia barteri
  2. Dactyladenia bellayana
  3. Dactyladenia buchneri
  4. Dactyladenia campestris
  5. Dactyladenia chevalieri
  6. Dactyladenia cinerea
  7. Dactyladenia dewevrei
  8. Dactyladenia dichotoma
  9. Dactyladenia dinklagei
  10. Dactyladenia eketensis
  11. Dactyladenia floretii
  12. Dactyladenia floribunda
  13. Dactyladenia gilletii
  14. Dactyladenia globosa[2]
  15. Dactyladenia hirsuta
  16. Dactyladenia icondere
  17. Dactyladenia johnstonei
  18. Dactyladenia jongkindii
  19. Dactyladenia laevis
  20. Dactyladenia lehmbachii
  21. Dactyladenia letestui
  22. Dactyladenia librevillensis
  23. Dactyladenia mannii
  24. Dactyladenia ndjoleensis
  25. Dactyladenia pallescens
  26. Dactyladenia pierrei
  27. Dactyladenia sapinii
  28. Dactyladenia scabrifolia'
  29. Dactyladenia smeathmannii
  30. Dactyladenia staudtii
  31. Dactyladenia whytei

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Dactyladenia". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 Jongkind, C. C. (2012). Description of Dactyladenia globosa (Chrysobalanaceae), a new tree species from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 145(1), 126-128.
  3. ↑ "Dactyladenia". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
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