''Atroxima'' is a plant genus in the milkwort family (
Polygalaceae
The Polygalaceae or the milkwort family are made up of flowering plants in the order Fabales. They have a near-cosmopolitan range, with about 27 genera and ''ca''. 900 known species of herbs, shrubs and trees. Over half of the species are in on ...
). It 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 Western Tropical Africa.
It was first described in 1905 by
Otto Stapf in the ''Journal of the Linnean Society''.
It was initially in the
Polygalaeae tribe before being split off with
Carpolobia in 1992 to form the
Carpolobieae tribe.
They are
liana
A liana is a long-Plant stem, stemmed Woody plant, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the Canopy (biology), canopy in search of direct sunlight. T ...
s or liana-like shrubs which produce shiny, orange, fleshy
uni-
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* triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, oc ...
to tri-locular berries, these can have an area of up to .
Species
As of July 2020, there are 2 accepted species:
[
*'']Atroxima afzeliana
''Atroxima afzeliana'' is a species of plant in the milkwort family (Polygalaceae). It is endemism, endemic to rainforests and forest fringes with altitudes below in Western Tropical Africa. It was first species description, described in 1868 by ...
''
*'' Atroxima liberica''
References
Polygalaceae
Fabales genera
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