Chonocentrum

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Chonocentrum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Tribe: Wielandieae
Genus: Chonocentrum
Pierre ex Pax & K.Hoffm.
Species

to be completed.

Chonocentrum is a genus of the family Phyllanthaceae. The genus is still not well understood; W. John Hayden has observed that the plant seems have been collected just once, in upper Rio Negro of Brazil in the 1850s, and suggests that it has been misplaced taxonomically.

[edit] References

  • Hayden, W. J., & S. M. Hayden. 1996. Two enigmatic biovulate Euphorbiaceae from the neotropics: relationships of Chonocentrum and the identity of Phyllanoa. A.I.B.S. Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. ABSTRACT: Amer. J. Bot. 83(6-supplement): 162.
  • Hayden, W. J., & S. M. Hayden. 2000. Relationships of Chonocentrum (Euphorbiaceae). Virginia Academy of Science Meeting, Radford University, Radford, VA. ABSTRACT: Virginia J. Sci. 51: 95.
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