Pycnocoma
Pycnocoma | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
Subfamily: | Acalyphoideae |
Tribe: | Pycnocomeae |
Subtribe: | |
Genus: | Pycnocoma Benth. |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Pycnocoma is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1849.[2][3] It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.[1][4]
- Species[1]
- - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Cost
- - Zaïre
- - Zaïre, Congo, Gabon, Central African Rep, Uganda, South Sudan
- - Congo, Gabon, Central African Rep, Ghana, Nigeria
- - Angola
- - Kasai
- - Zaïre
- - Zaïre
- Pycnocoma littoralis - Kenya, Tanzania
- - Zaïre
- Pycnocoma macrantha - Lushoto
- (Bomah-nut) - W + C Africa
- - Congo, Gabon, Central African Rep, Equatorial Guinea
- - Madagascar
- - Zaïre
- - Zaïre
- - Gabon
- - Congo, Zaïre
- Formerly included[1]
moved to other genera: Argomuellera Droceloncia
- P. danguyana -
- P. decaryana -
- P. gigantea -
- P. gigantea var. calcicola -
- P. hirsuta -
- P. hutchinsonii -
- P. laurentii -
- P. parviflora -
- P. perrieri -
- P. rigidifolia - Droceloncia rigidifolia
- P. sapinii -
- P. sassandrae -
- P. trewioides -
References[]
- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Bentham, George. 1849. in Hooker, William Jackson, Niger flora; or, An enumeration of the plants of western tropical Africa 508-509 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
- ^ Tropicos Pycnocoma Benth.
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Pycnocomeae
- Euphorbiaceae genera
- Flora of Africa
- Euphorbiaceae stubs