Biology:Afroguatteria
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Short description: Genus of Annonaceae plants
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Subfamily: | Annonoideae |
| Tribe: | Uvarieae |
| Genus: | Afroguatteria Boutique[1] |
Afroguatteria is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae, native to Cabinda and Zaire in west Africa.[2] They are climbers, and are closely related to Toussaintia.[3]
Species
(As of 2020), there are two species in the genus Afroguatteria:[2]
- Afroguatteria bequaertii (De Wild.) Boutique
- Afroguatteria globosa C.N.Paiva
Taxonomy
The genus name of Afroguatteria is in honour of Giambattista Guatteri (1739–1793), an Italian professor of botany in Parma,[4] and the continent, where the plants were found, 'Afro' - africa. The genus was first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles Vol.21 on page 104 in 1951.[2]
The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.[5]
References
- ↑ Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 21: 104 (1951)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Afroguatteria Boutique". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1958-1.
- ↑ Guo, Xing; Hoekstra, Paul H.; Tang, Chin Cheung; Thomas, Daniel C.; Wieringa, Jan J.; Chatrou, Lars W.; Saunders, Richard M.K. (22 February 2017). "Cutting up the climbers: Evidence for extensive polyphyly in Friesodielsia (Annonaceae) necessitates generic realignment across the tribe Uvarieae". Taxon 66 (1): 3–19. doi:10.12705/661.1.
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ↑ "Genus Afroguatteria Boutique". https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=264.
Wikidata ☰ Q4819061 entry
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