Biology:Allantoma

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Allantoma
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Lecythidaceae
Subfamily: Lecythidoideae
Genus: Allantoma
Miers
Type species
Allantoma torulosa
Miers[1][2]
Synonyms[3]

Goeldinia Huber

Allantoma is a genus of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus in 1874.[4][2] It is native to northwestern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, northern Brazil .[3]

Species[3]
  1. Allantoma decandra (Ducke) S.A.Mori, Ya Y.Huang & Prance - Peru, Brazil
  2. Allantoma integrifolia (Ducke) S.A.Mori - Amazonas State in Brazil
  3. Allantoma kuhlmannii (Ducke) S.A.Mori - Rondônia State in Brazil
  4. Allantoma lineata (Mart. ex O.Berg) Miers - Amazonas State in Venezuela; Amazonas and Pará States in Brazil
  5. Allantoma pachyantha (A.C.Sm.) S.A.Mori, Ya Y.Huang & Prance - Amazonas State in Brazil
  6. Allantoma pauciramosa (W.A.Rodrigues) S.A.Mori, Ya Y.Huang & Prance - Amazonas State in Brazil
  7. Allantoma pluriflora S.A.Mori, Ya Y.Huang & Prance - Colombia
  8. Allantoma uaupensis (Spruce ex O.Berg) S.A.Mori, Ya Y.Huang & Prance - Amazonas State in Brazil

References

  1. lectotype designated by Sprague, J. Bot. 70: 231 (1932)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Allantoma Miers
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Miers, John. 1874. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 30: 170-171, 291-298 pp 170-171 in English with informal descriptions; pages 291-298 with Latin descriptions and more formal discussion in English

Wikidata ☰ Q8195715 entry