''Autranella'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...
in family
Sapotaceae
240px, '' Madhuca longifolia'' var. ''latifolia'' in Narsapur, Medak district, India
The Sapotaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants belonging to the order (biology), order Ericales. The family includes about 800 species of ev ...
described as a genus in 1917.
Tropicos, ''Autranella'' A.Chev.
/ref> It contains only one recognized species, ''Autranella congolensis'' (also known as mukulungu), native to west-central Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon
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, Central African Republic
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, Republic of the Congo, Cabinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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).[
The species is listed as critically endangered.]
References
Monotypic Ericales genera
Flora of Africa
Critically endangered plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Sapotaceae genera
Taxa named by Auguste Chevalier
Taxa named by Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman
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