Paganuccia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, viz. Paganuccia icatuensis, which is endemic to the continental dunes in the São Francisco River basin, Bahia, north-eastern Brazil.[1] Morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses support the recognition of this new genus within the Spermacoce clade of the tribe Spermacoceae.[1]

Paganuccia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Spermacoceae
Genus: Paganuccia
R.M.Salas
Species:
P. icatuensis
Binomial name
Paganuccia icatuensis
R.M.Salas

References

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  1. ^ a b Nuñez Florentin M, Salas RM, Carmo J, Cabral EL, Dessein S, Janssens SB (2022). "Paganuccia icatuensis (Rubiaceae), a new genus and species from Bahia, Brazil, with a key to all the genera of the tribe Spermacoceae in the Americas". Taxon. 71 (3): 630–649. doi:10.1002/tax.12651.