Dactyladenia

Dactyladenia
	Dactyladenia cinerea herbarium specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Chrysobalanaceae
Genus:	Dactyladenia; Welw.
Type species
	Dactyladenia floribunda; Welw.
Synonyms
	Griffonia Hook.f. 1865, illegitimate homonym, not Baill. 1865 (Fabaceae);

Dactyladenia is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae. They are distributed in western and central Africa, from Liberia to Angola.^[1] There are about 31 species.^[2]

The genus was first described by Friedrich Welwitsch in his work Apontamentos Fito-geograficos sobre a Flora da Provincia de Angola na Africa Equinocial (1859).^[3]

Species^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Dactyladenia". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b Jongkind, C. C. (2012). Description of Dactyladenia globosa (Chrysobalanaceae), a new tree species from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 145(1), 126-128.
^ "Dactyladenia". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 15 January 2014.

[ew-1] "Dactyladenia". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 January 2014.

[jong-2] Jongkind, C. C. (2012). Description of Dactyladenia globosa (Chrysobalanaceae), a new tree species from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 145(1), 126-128.

[Trop-3] "Dactyladenia". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 15 January 2014.

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