Amanoa

See also Queen Amanoa, a fictional character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Amanoa
Amanoa congesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Tribe: Amanoeae
Genus: Amanoa
Aubl.

Amanoa is a genus from the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1775.[1][2] It is native to South America, Central America, the West Indies, and tropical Africa.[3][4][5][6][7]

species[3]
  1. Amanoa almerindae - B Amazonas, V Amazonas
  2. Amanoa anomala - Ecuador
  3. Amanoa bracteosa - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia
  4. Amanoa caribaea - Guadeloupe, Dominica
  5. Amanoa congesta - Amapá, Pará, Fr Guiana
  6. Amanoa cupatensis - B Amazonas, V Amazonas
  7. Amanoa glaucophyla - Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil
  8. Amanoa gracillima - B Amazonas
  9. Amanoa guianensis - Trinidad, Central America, N South America
  10. Amanoa muricata - Bolivia
  11. Amanoa nanayensis - Loreto
  12. Amanoa neglecta - French Guiana, Suriname
  13. Amanoa oblongifolia - from Venezuela to Bolivia
  14. Amanoa sinuosa - Loreto, B Amazonas
  15. Amanoa steyermarkii - S Venezuela
  16. Amanoa strobilacea - W + C Africa
formerly included[3]

moved to other genera: Bridelia Cleistanthus Gonatogyne Pentabrachion Richeria

  1. A. acuminata - Cleistanthus acuminatus
  2. A. boiviniana - Cleistanthus boivinianus
  3. A. brasiliensis - Gonatogyne brasiliensis
  4. A. chartacea - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
  5. A. collina - Cleistanthus collinus
  6. A. cunninghamii - Cleistanthus cunninghamii
  7. A. dallachyana - Cleistanthus dallachyanus
  8. A. divaricata - Richeria grandis
  9. A. faginea - Bridelia leichhardtii
  10. A. ferruginea - Cleistanthus ferrugineus
  11. A. indica Wight 1852 - Cleistanthus patulus
  12. A. indica Thwaites 1864 - Cleistanthus robustus
  13. A. indica f. minor Thwaites 1864 - Cleistanthus patulus
  14. A. laurifolia - Pentabrachion reticulatum
  15. A. leichhardtii - Bridelia leichhardtii
  16. A. ovata - Bridelia exaltata
  17. A. pallida - Cleistanthus pallidus
  18. A. patula - Cleistanthus patulus
  19. A. purpurascens - Richeria grandis
  20. A. racemosa - Richeria grandis
  21. A. ramiflora - Richeria grandis
  22. A. robusta Thwaites 1864 not Leal 1951 - Cleistanthus robustus
  23. A. stenonia - Cleistanthus stenonius
  24. A. tomentosa - Bridelia tomentosa

References

  1. ↑ Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée. 1775. Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise 1: 256-258, t. 101 short descriptions in Latin, longer descriptions and discussion in French
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Amanoa Aubl.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. ↑ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  6. ↑ Hayden, W. J. 1990. Notes on Neotropical Amanoa (Euphorbiaceae). Brittonia 42(2): 260–270
  7. ↑ Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii,.