Biology:Pycnandra

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Pycnandra
Photograph of Pycnandra acuminata branch with leavea
Pycnandra acuminata is an example of a tree in this genus. (Permission to use this file was granted personally by Benoit Henry to illustrate Pycnandra acuminata on Wikipedia)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Subfamily: Chrysophylloideae
Genus: Pycnandra
Benth.
Synonyms[1]
  • Leptostylis Benth.
  • Achradotypus Baill.
  • Chorioluma Baill.
  • Ochrothallus Pierre ex Baill.
  • Trouettia Pierre ex Baill.
  • Sebertia Pierre ex Engl. & Prantl
  • Heteromera Montrouz. ex Beauvis. 1901, illegitimate homonym, not Pomel 1874 (Asteraceae)
  • Tropalanthe S.Moore
  • Corbassona Aubrév.

Pycnandra is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1876.[2][3]

it is the largest endemic genus of flowering plants of New Caledonia.[1][4] Its closest relative is the Australian Niemeyera.[5]

List of species

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Bentham, George. 1876. Genera plantarum :ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita /auctoribus G. Bentham et J.D. Hooker. page 658. in Latin
  3. Tropicos, Pycnandra Benth.
  4. Swenson, U., Nylinder, S. & Munzinger, J. (2013). Towards a natural classification of Sapotaceae subfamily Chrysophylloideae in Oceania and Southeast Asia based on nuclear sequence data. Taxon 62: 746-770.
  5. Swenson, U., S. Nylinder, and J. Munzinger. (2013) Towards a Natural Classification of Sapotaceae Subfamily Chrysophylloideae in Oceania and Southeast Asia Based on Nuclear Sequence Data.” Taxon 62 (4): 746–70.

Wikidata ☰ Q3004059 entry