Cyrtogonone is a genus of shrubs or trees of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), first described as a genus in 1911.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Cyrtogonone argentea, native to tropical central Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea).[1][4][5] It is dioecious.[6]
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| Cyrtogonone argentea specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Crotonoideae |
| Tribe: | Aleuritideae |
| Subtribe: | Crotonogyninae |
| Genus: | Cyrtogonone Prain |
| Species: | C. argentea
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyrtogonone argentea (Pax) Prain
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Crotonogyne argentea Pax | |
References
edit- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Prain, David. 1911. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1911: 231-232 descriptions in Latin, commentary and geographic information in English
- ^ Tropicos, Cyrtogonone Prain
- ^ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.
- ^ Van Welzen, Peter C.; Stuppy, Wolfgang (1999). "Phylogenetic Considerations of Euphorbiaceae Tribe Aleuritideae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 86 (4): 894–903. doi:10.2307/2666174. JSTOR 2666174.
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