Biology:Anaxagorea

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Anaxagorea
Anaxagorea dolichocarpa.jpg
Anaxagorea dolichocarpa
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Anaxagorea
A.St.-Hil.

Anaxagorea is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Anaxagoreoideae (of which it is the only genus) in the family Annonaceae.[1] There are about 26 species, distributed in Central and South America.[2]

Species include:

  • Anaxagorea acuminata
  • Anaxagorea allenii
  • Anaxagorea angustifolia
  • Anaxagorea borneensis (Becc.) J.Sinclair
  • Anaxagorea brachycarpa
  • Anaxagorea brevipedicellata
  • Anaxagorea brevipes
  • Anaxagorea crassipetala
  • Anaxagorea dolichocarpa
  • Anaxagorea floribunda
  • Anaxagorea gigantophylla
  • Anaxagorea guatemalensis
  • Anaxagorea inundata
  • Anaxagorea javanica
  • Anaxagorea luzonensis
  • Anaxagorea macrantha
  • Anaxagorea manausensis
  • Anaxagorea pachypetala
  • Anaxagorea panamensis
  • Anaxagorea petiolata
  • Anaxagorea phaeocarpa, Mart.
  • Anaxagorea prinoides
  • Anaxagorea radiata
  • Anaxagorea rheophytica
  • Anaxagorea rufa
  • Anaxagorea silvatica

A. radiata is a little-known species that may belong within A. javanica.[2]

References

  1. CHATROU, LARS W.; PIRIE, MICHAEL D.; ERKENS, ROY H. J.; COUVREUR, THOMAS L. P.; NEUBIG, KURT M.; ABBOTT, J. RICHARD; MOLS, JOHAN B.; MAAS, JAN W. et al. (May 2012). "A new subfamilial and tribal classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (1): 5–40. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01235.x. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Scharaschkin, T., & Doyle, J. A. (2005). Phylogeny and historical biogeography of Anaxagorea (Annonaceae) using morphology and non-coding chloroplast sequence data. Systematic Botany, 712-735.

Wikidata ☰ Q1936078 entry