Keayodendron

Keayodendron
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Tribe: Phyllantheae
Subtribe: Pseudolachnostylidinae
Genus: Keayodendron
Leandri
Species: K. bridelioides
Binomial name
Keayodendron bridelioides
(Mildbr. ex Hutch. & Dalz.) Leandri
Synonyms[1]
  • Casearia bridelioides Mildbr. ex Hutch. & Dalziel
  • Casearia bridelioides Gilg ex Engl.
  • Drypetes sassandraensis Aubrév.

Keayodendron is a genus of plants in the Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1959.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Keayodendron bridelioides, native to tropical western and Central Africa (Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Cen Af Rep).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Leandri, Jacques Désiré. 1959. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 105: 517
  3. Tropicos, Keayodendron Leandri


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