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Genus of Annonaceae plants

Afroguatteria
Infructescence of Afroguatteria discostigma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Subfamily: Annonoideae
Tribe: Uvarieae
Genus: Afroguatteria
Boutique

Afroguatteria is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae, native to Cabinda and Zaire in west Africa. They are climbers, and are closely related to Toussaintia.

Species

As of 2020, there are two species in the genus Afroguatteria:

Taxonomy

The genus name of Afroguatteria is in honour of Giambattista Guatteri (1739–1793), an Italian professor of botany in Parma, 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.

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.

References

  1. Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 21: 104 (1951)
  2. ^ "Afroguatteria Boutique". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  3. 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.
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. "Genus Afroguatteria Boutique". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
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Afroguatteria
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