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Keayodendron

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Genus of flowering plants

Keayodendron
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Subfamily: Phyllanthoideae
Tribe: Bridelieae
Subtribe: Keayodendrinae
Genus: Keayodendron
Leandri
Species: K. bridelioides
Binomial name
Keayodendron bridelioides
(Mildbr. ex Hutch. & Dalz.) Leandri
Synonyms
  • Casearia bridelioides Mildbr. ex Hutch. & Dalziel
  • Casearia bridelioides Gilg ex Engl.
  • Drypetes sassandraensis Aubrév.

Keayodendron is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1959. It contains only one known species, Keayodendron bridelioides, native to tropical western and Central Africa (Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic). It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

References

  1. ^ 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
  4. Hoffmann, Petra; Kathriarachchi, Hashendra; Wurdack, Kenneth J. (2006). "A Phylogenetic Classification of Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato)". Kew Bulletin. 61 (1): 37–53. JSTOR 20443245.
Taxon identifiers
Keayodendron
Keayodendron bridelioides
Keayodendrinae

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