''Pleuranthodendron'' 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 ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the family

Salicaceae The Salicaceae are the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') includes the willows, poplars. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly expanded the circumsc ...

. It consists of one

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(''Pleuranthodendron lindenii'') of small to medium-sized trees native to the

neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeog ...

, specifically Central America and northern South America.Alford, M.H. 2006. A new species of ''Hasseltia'' (Salicaceae) from Costa Rica and Panama. ''Brittonia'' 58(3): 277-284. Formerly placed in the heterogeneous family

Flacourtiaceae The Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family of flowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various families, mostly to the Achariaceae and Salicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it bec ...

,Sleumer, H.O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. ''Flora Neotropica'' 22: 1-499. ''Pleuranthodendron'' is now classified in Salicaceae, along with close relatives '' Hasseltia'' and '' Macrothumia'', with which they are commonly confused.Alford, M. H. 2003. Claves para los géneros de Flacourtiaceae de Perú y del Nuevo Mundo. ''Arnaldoa'' 10: 19-38.Gentry, A. H. 1993. ''A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru).'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Salicaceae Salicaceae genera Flora of Central America Flora of Southern America Trees of Central America Trees of South America Monotypic Malpighiales genera {{Salicaceae-stub