Glandonia

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Glandonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Malpighiaceae
Genus: Glandonia
Griseb.
Species
  • Glandonia macrocarpa Griseb.
  • Glandonia prancei W. R. Anderson
  • Glandonia williamsii Steyerm.

Glandonia is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Glandonia comprises 3 species of trees or shrubs native to lowland forests along rivers or in areas periodically flooded in Amazonian Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.

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