Afroguatteria

<i>Afroguatteria</i>

Afroguatteria

Genus of Annonaceae plants

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]

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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

  1. [1]
    Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 21: 104 (1951)
  2. [2]
    "Afroguatteria Boutique". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  3. [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. [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. [5]
    "Genus Afroguatteria Boutique". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
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