Biology:Priogymnanthus

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Priogymnanthus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Oleaceae
Tribe: Oleeae
Subtribe: Oleinae
Genus: Priogymnanthus
P.S.Green
Species

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Priogymnanthus is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae native to tropical South America, in Bolivia, Brazil , Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Paraguay.[1][2]

They are deciduous or semi-deciduous trees, closely related to Mesoamerican Chionanthus and Forestiera.[3]

Species
  • Priogymnanthus apertus (B.Ståhl) P.S.Green - Ecuador
  • Priogymnanthus colombianus Fern.Alonso. & P.A. Morales-M. - Colombia
  • Priogymnanthus hasslerianus (Chodat) P.S.Green - Bolivia, Brazil , Paraguay, Argentina

References

  1. University of Oxford Oleaceae information site: Priogymnanthus
  2. FERNÁNDEZ-ALONSO, JOSÉ LUIS; MORALES MORALES, PAULA ANDREA (2019-03-27). "Priogymnanthus colombianus (Oleaceae), a new species and first record of genus to Colombia". Phytotaxa 399 (3): 195. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.3. ISSN 1179-3163. 
  3. Zedane, Loubab; Hong-Wa, Cynthia; Murienne, Jérôme; Jeziorski, Céline; Baldwin, Bruce G.; Besnard, Guillaume (2016-01-01). "Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico" (in en). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117 (1): 44–57. doi:10.1111/bij.12509. ISSN 1095-8312. https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt1615g4rh/qt1615g4rh.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5236957 entry