''Pyrenacantha'' 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
Icacinaceae
The Icacinaceae, also called the white pear family, are a family of flowering plants,"Icacinaceae" At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website (see ''External links'' below).
consisting of trees, shrubs, and lianas, pr ...
. It has about 20 species, all from the
Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe , after Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas. It is used to contrast the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia, which were previously thought of by th ...
tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in
the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred ...
.
[David J. Mabberley. 2008. ''Mabberley's Plant-Book'' third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK.]
List of selected species
* ''Pyrenacantha acuminata''
Engl.
* ''Pyrenacantha ambrensis'' Labat, El-Achkar & R.Rabev.
* ''Pyrenacantha andapensis'' Labat, El-Achkar & R. Rabev.
* ''Pyrenacantha brevipes'' Engl.
* ''Pyrenacantha capitata''
H.Perrier
* ''Pyrenacantha chlorantha'' Baker
* ''
Pyrenacantha cordicula'' Villiers
* ''
Pyrenacantha malvifolia
Pyrenacantha malvifolia, common name monkey chair, is a rare species of flowering plants in the genus ''Pyrenacantha'' belonging to the family Icacinaceae.
Description
''Pyrenacantha malvifolia'' has an above ground swollen and thickened caudex ...
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Engl.
* ''Pyrenacantha volubilis''
William Jackson Hooker, 1830. (
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...
)
References
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Asterid genera
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