''Dicranopygium'' 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 ...

s belonging to the family

Cyclanthaceae Cyclanthaceae is a family of flowering plants. Taxonomy Earlier systems, such as the Cronquist system and the Takhtajan system, placed it as the sole family in the order Cyclanthales. In the classification system of Rolf Dahlgren, Dahlgren the C ...

, first described as a genus in 1954. They are distributed in the

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from southern

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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Harling, G. W. 1958. Monograph of the Cyclanthaceae. Acta Horti Bergiani 18: 1–428

Species

Species include: * '' Dicranopygium amazonicum'' - NW Brazil * '' Dicranopygium angustissimum'' - Guyana * '' Dicranopygium aristeguietae'' - Venezuela * '' Dicranopygium arusisense'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium atrovirens'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium aurantiacum'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium bolivarense'' - Venezuela * '' Dicranopygium calimense'' - Colombia, Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium callithrix'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium campii'' - Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium coma-pyrrhae'' - Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium crinitum'' - Panama * '' Dicranopygium cuatrecasanum'' - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium dolichostemon'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium euryphyllum'' - Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium fissile'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium globosum'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium goudotii'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium gracile'' - Veracruz, Oaxaca, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua * '' Dicranopygium grandifolium'' - Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium harlingii'' - Costa Rica, Panama * '' Dicranopygium idrobonis'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium imeriense'' - Guyana, Venezuela, NW Brazil * '' Dicranopygium insulare'' - Tobago * '' Dicranopygium latissimum'' - Peru * '' Dicranopygium lugonis'' - Ecuador, Peru * '' Dicranopygium macrophyllum'' - Venezuela * '' Dicranopygium microcephalum'' - Costa Rica, Honduras * '' Dicranopygium mirabile'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium nanum'' - Guyana, Venezuela * '' Dicranopygium novogranatense'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium odoratum'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium omichlophilum '' - Venezuela, Colombia * '' Dicranopygium pachystemon'' - Peru * '' Dicranopygium parvulum'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium polycephalum'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium pygmaeum'' - Colombia, the Guianas * '' Dicranopygium rheithrophilum'' - Colombia, Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium robustum'' - Amazonas in Venezuela * '' Dicranopygium rupestre'' - Venezuela * '' Dicranopygium sanctae-martae'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium sararense'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium schultesii'' - Colombia, Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium scoparum'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium stenophyllum'' - Ecuador * '' Dicranopygium tatica'' - Costa Rica * '' Dicranopygium testaceum'' - Panama, Colombia * '' Dicranopygium trianae'' - Colombia * '' Dicranopygium umbrophilum'' - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama * '' Dicranopygium venezuelanum'' - Venezuela * '' Dicranopygium wallisii'' - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia * '' Dicranopygium wedelii''- Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras * '' Dicranopygium williamsii'' - Ecuador, Peru * '' Dicranopygium yacu-sisa'' - Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela

References

External links

* Hammel, B. E. (2003)
New Species of Cyclanthaceae from southern Central America and northern South America
''Novon'' 13 52–63. Cyclanthaceae Pandanales genera {{Pandanales-stub