Didymocistus is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1940.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Didymocistus chrysadenius, native to the Loreto region of northeastern Peru, the Amazonas Department of southeastern Colombia, and the State of Amazonas in northwestern Brazil.[3][4][5][6] It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.[7]

Didymocistus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Subfamily: Antidesmatoideae
Tribe: Antidesmateae
Subtribe: Hymenocardiinae
Genus: Didymocistus
Kuhlm.
Species:
D. chrysadenius
Binomial name
Didymocistus chrysadenius

References

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  1. ^ Kuhlmann, João Geraldo. 1940. Anais Reunião Sul-Americana de Botânica 3: 82
  2. ^ Tropicos, Didymocistus Kuhlm.
  3. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Tropicos, specimen list for Didymocistus chrysadenius Kuhlm.
  5. ^ Levin, G. A. 1986. Systematic foliar morphology of Phyllanthoideae (Euphorbiaceae). I. Conspectus. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 73(1): 29–85
  6. ^ Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i–xl, 1–1286
  7. ^ 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.