''Anthodiscus'' 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 family
Caryocaraceae described as a genus in 1818.
The entire genus is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref>[Prance, G. T. 1987. An update on the taxonomy and distribution of the Caryocaraceae. Opera Botanica 92: 179–183]
;Species[
# '' Anthodiscus amazonicus'' Gleason & A.C.Sm. - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador
# '' Anthodiscus chocoensis'' Prance - Colombia
# '' Anthodiscus fragrans'' Sleumer - Ecuador
# '' Anthodiscus klugii'' Standl. ex Prance - Ecuador, N Peru
# '' Anthodiscus mazarunensis'' Gilly - Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela
# '' Anthodiscus montanus'' Gleason - Colombia
# '' Anthodiscus obovatus'' Benth. ex Wittm. - Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
# '' Anthodiscus peruanus'' Baill. - Ecuador, N Peru
# '' Anthodiscus pilosus'' Ducke - Colombia, N Peru
# '' Anthodiscus trifoliatus'' G.Mey. - Guyana
]
References
Malpighiales genera
Flora of Southern America
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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