Hamilcoa

Hamilcoa
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Euphorbioideae
Tribe: Stomatocalyceae
Subtribe: Hamilcoinae
Genus: Hamilcoa
Prain
Binomial name
Hamilcoa zenkeri
(Pax) Prain
Synonyms[1]

Plukenetia zenkeri Pax

Hamilcoa is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1912.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Hamilcoa zenkeri, native to Nigeria and Cameroon.[1][4][5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Prain, David. 1912. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1912: 107 descriptions in Latin, commentary and range information in English
  3. Tropicos, Hamilcoa Prain
  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. Cheek, M. 2004. Hamilcoa zenkeri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 August 2007.