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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| Infructescence of Afroguatteria discostigma | |
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] |
Species
editAs of 2020[update], there are two species in the genus Afroguatteria:[2]
- Afroguatteria bequaertii (De Wild.) Boutique
- Afroguatteria globosa C.N.Paiva
Taxonomy
editThe 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
edit- ^ Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 21: 104 (1951)
- ^ a b c "Afroguatteria Boutique". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ 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). 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.
- ^ "Genus Afroguatteria Boutique". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 30 January 2022.