''Radlkofera'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s belonging to the family

Sapindaceae The Sapindaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales known as the soapberry family. It contains 138 genera and 1,858 accepted species. Examples include Aesculus, horse chestnut, maples, ackee and lychee. The ...

. It only contains one known species, Radlkofera calodendron Gilg Its native range is Tropical Africa. It is found in Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and Zaïre. The genus name of ''Radlkofera'' is in honour of

Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (19 December 1829, in Munich – 16 February 1927, in Munich), was a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist. Radlkofer became a physician in 1854 and earned a PhD in botany at University of Jena, Jena the following yea ...

(1829–1927), a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist. The Latin

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

of ''calodendron'' is derived from the Greek, ''kalos'' which means beautiful and ''dendrum'' means tree. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. Vol.24 on page 300 in 1897.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q9065702, from2=Q15528277 Sapindaceae Sapindaceae genera Plants described in 1897 Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa Taxa named by Ernest Friedrich Gilg