Biology:Petersianthus

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Petersianthus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Lecythidaceae
Genus: Petersianthus
Merr.
Synonyms[1]
  • Petersia Welw. ex Benth. & Hook.f. 1865, illegitimate name, not Klotzsch 1861 (syn of Capparis in Capparaceae)[2]
  • Combretodendron A.Chev., not validly published

Petersianthus is a genus of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family first described as a genus in 1865 under the name Petersia.[3][4] This turned out to be an illegitimate homonym, meaning that it had already been used by someone else to refer to a very different plant.[5][6] So the name of these species in the Lecythidaceae was changed to Petersianthus.[7][8] It is native to the Philippines and to parts of Africa.[1] The following two species belong to this genus, with the basionyms of both taxa belonging to what is known today as the family Combretaceae.

species[1]
  1. Petersianthus macrocarpus (fr) (P.Beauv.) Liben (syn. Combretum macrocarpum P.Beauv.[9])[10] - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cabinda, Gabon, Angola
  2. Petersianthus quadrialatus (Merr.) Merr. (syn. Terminalia quadrialata Merr.[11])[7] - Philippines

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Tropicos, Petersia rosea Klotzsch
  3. Welwitsch, Friedrich Martin Josef. 1865. ex Bentham, George, Genera plantarum :ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita 1: 721. in Latin
  4. Tropicos, Petersia Welw. ex Benth.
  5. Klotzsch, Johann Friedrich. 1861. Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique 168
  6. Tropicos, Petersia Klotzsch
  7. 7.0 7.1 Merrill, E. D. (1916). "New plants from Samar". The Philippine Journal of Science, Section C. Botany 11 (4): 200–201. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/687892. 
  8. Tropicos, Petersianthus Merr.
  9. Palisot de Beauvois, A. M. F. J. (1807–1820). Flore d’Oware et de Bénin, en Afrique. 2. Paris. p. 90. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47235485. 
  10. Liben, L. (1968). "Petersianthus Merrill versus Combretodendron A. Chev. (Lecythidaceae)". Bulletin du Jardin botanique National de Belgique / Bulletin van de Nationale Plantentuin van België 38 (2): 207–208. doi:10.2307/3667553. 
  11. Merrill, E. D. (1909). "New or Noteworthy Philippine plants, VII". The Philippine Journal of Science, Section C. Botany 4 (3): 301. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/698727. 

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