''Spondianthus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

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

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Phyllanthaceae Phyllanthaceae is a Family (biology), family of flowering plants in the eudicot Order (biology), order Malpighiales. It is most closely related to the family Picrodendraceae.Kenneth J. Wurdack and Charles C. Davis. 2009. "Malpighiales phylogeneti ...

and is the only genus comprised in the tribe Spondiantheae. It was first described as a genus in 1905. The genus contains only one recognized species, ''Spondianthus preussii'', widespread across much of tropical

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/ref> ;Subspecies # ''Spondianthus preussii'' subsp. ''glaber'' (Engl.) J.Léonard & Nkounkou – from Nigeria to Tanzania south to Angola; also Guinea, Ivory Coast # ''Spondianthus preussii'' subsp. ''preussii'' – from

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;Formerly included moved to: '' Protomegabaria'' *''Spondianthus obovatus'' Engl. – '' Protomegabaria stapfiana'' (Beille) Hutch.

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Phyllanthaceae Phyllanthaceae genera Monotypic Malpighiales genera Flora of Africa Taxa named by Adolf Engler {{Phyllanthaceae-stub