''Pierreodendron'' 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 ...

s in the family

Simaroubaceae The Simaroubaceae, also known as the quassia family, are a small, mostly tropical, family in the order Sapindales. In recent decades, it has been subject to much taxonomic debate, with several small families being split off. A molecular phyloge ...

. Its native range is western tropical Africa and is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo and Zaïre. It was first published by German botanist

Adolf Engler Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (''The Natural Plant Families''), edited with K ...

in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. vol.39 on page 575 in 1907. The genus name of ''Pierreodendron'' is in honour of

Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (23 October 1833 – 30 October 1905), also known as J. B. Louis Pierre, was a French Botany, botanist known for his Asian studies. Early life Pierre was born in Saint-André, Réunion, Saint-André, Réunion, and ...

(1833–1905), a French botanist known for his Asian studies, as well as ''dendron'' the Greek word for tree. Hans Peter Nooteboom (1934–2022) in 1962 (published in 1963), took a very broad view of the genus ''

Quassia ''Quassia'' ( or ) is a plant genus in the family Simaroubaceae. Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species, '' Quassia amara'' from tropical South America, while others treat it in a wide circumscription as ...

'' and included therein various genera including, ''

Hannoa ''Hannoa'' is a genus of plant in the family Simaroubaceae. Found in tropical parts of Africa. Description The genus consists of trees, shrubs or shrublets. They have leaves that are not crowded at the ends of the branches, imparipinnate. With l ...

'' , '' Odyendyea'' , ''Pierreodendron'' , '' Samadera'' , '' Simaba'' and also '' Simarouba'' In 2007, molecular analyses of the Simaroubaceae family (Clayton et al., 2007), suggested the splitting up of genera ''Quassia'' again, with all Nooteboom's synonyms listed above being resurrected as independent genera.

Known species

According to

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; * '' Pierreodendron africanum'' (Hook.f.) Little * '' Pierreodendron kerstingii'' (Engl.) Little

References

Sapindales genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Plants described in 1907 Flora of West Tropical Africa Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa Flora of Angola Taxa named by Adolf Engler {{sapindales-stub