Aubregrinia

Aubregrinia
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Genus: Aubregrinia
Heine 1960
Binomial name
Aubregrinia taiensis
(Aubrév. & Pellegr.) Heine
Synonyms[1]
  • Endotricha Aubrév. & Pellegr. 1935, illegitimate homonym, not Suringar 1870 (probably Gentianaceae)
  • Endotricha taiensis Aubrév. & Pellegr.
  • Pouteria taiensis (Aubrév. & Pellegr.) Baehni

Aubregrinia is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae first described as a genus in 1935.[2][3][4]

There is only one known species, Aubregrinia taiensis, native to West Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast).[1][5]

The species is listed as critically endangered.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Aubréville, André & Pellegrin, François. 1935. Endotricha. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 81: 794
  3. ↑ Heine, Hermann Heino. 1960. Kew Bulletin 14: 301
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Aubregrinia Heine
  5. ↑ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. ↑ Assi, A. 1998. Aubregrinia taiensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 August 2007.