''Excentradenia'' 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 ...

of plants in the family

Malpighiaceae Malpighiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. It comprises about 73 genera and 1315 species, all of which are native to the tropics and subtropics. About 80% of the genera and 90% of the species occur in the New World ( ...

. ''Excentradenia'' comprises four

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of woody vines native to the forests of northern

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 ...

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Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae - description, taxonomy, phylogeny, and nomenclature

*Anderson, W. R. 1997. ''Excentradenia'', a new genus of Malpighiaceae from South America. Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 21: 29–36. Malpighiaceae Malpighiaceae genera {{Malpighiaceae-stub