''Duckeodendron'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family

Solanaceae Solanaceae (), commonly known as the nightshades, is a family of flowering plants in the order Solanales. It contains approximately 2,700 species, several of which are used as agricultural crops, medicinal plants, and ornamental plants. Many me ...

represented by a single species, ''Duckeodendron cestroides''. A tree reaching 15 to 30 m, it is found in the

Amazon rainforest The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin ...

of Brazil. Its common names include pincel-de-macaco and pupunharana.

João Geraldo Kuhlmann João Geraldo Kuhlmann (1882 Blumenau, Santa Catarina -1958 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian botanist. Life Kuhlmann was a specialist on taxonomy of angiosperms. He was a great collector of herborized material (his collection w ...

described it in 1925 and named it for the collector, Adolpho Ducke.

Taxonomy

It seems to be basal within Solanaceae and has not been assigned to any existing subfamily.

References

Monotypic Solanaceae genera Trees of Brazil Solanaceae {{Solanales-stub