''Sacoglottis'' 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 ...
in family
Humiriaceae
Humiriaceae (or, alternatively Houmiriaceae Juss.) is a family of evergreen flowering plants. It comprises 8 genera and 56 known species. The family is exclusively Neotropical, except one species found in tropical West Africa
West Africa, al ...
. It includes several species of trees, native to tropical Central and South America and western and central Africa.
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Species
11 species are accepted.[
* '' Sacoglottis amazonica''
* '' Sacoglottis ceratocarpa''
* '' Sacoglottis cydonioides''
* '' Sacoglottis gabonensis''
* '' Sacoglottis guianensis''
* '' Sacoglottis holridgei''
* '' Sacoglottis maguirei''
* '' Sacoglottis mattogrossensis''
* '' Sacoglottis ovicarpa''
* '' Sacoglottis perryi''
* '' Sacoglottis trichogyna''
]
References
External links
Humiriaceae
Malpighiales genera
Taxa described in 1827
Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
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