''Maranthes'' is a genus of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

in the family

Chrysobalanaceae Chrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees and shrubs in 27 genera and about 700 species of pantropical distribution with a centre of diversity in the Amazon. Some of the species contain silica in their bodies for rig ...

described as a genus in 1825.Prance, G. T. & F. White. 1988. The genera of Chrysobalanaceae: a study in practical and theoretical taxonomy and its relevance to evolutionary biology. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 320: 1–184. ''Maranthes'' is native to tropical regions of

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, and various oceanic islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Maranthes aubrevillei ''Maranthes'' is a genus of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1825.Prance, G. T. & F. White. 1988. The genera of Chrysobalanaceae: a study in practical and theoretical taxonomy and its relevance to evolutionary biology. ...

'' - W Africa # '' Maranthes chrysophylla'' - W + C Africa # '' Maranthes corymbosa'' - Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand,

Papuasia Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia. It comprises th ...

, Philippines,

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# '' Maranthes floribunda'' - C Africa # '' Maranthes gabunensis'' - C Africa # '' Maranthes glabra'' - W + C Africa # '' Maranthes goetzeniana'' - Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe # '' Maranthes kerstingii'' - W + C Africa # '' Maranthes panamensis'' - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama # '' Maranthes polyandra'' - from Ivory Coast to South Sudan # '' Maranthes robusta'' - W Africa # '' Maranthes sanagensis'' - Cameroon

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