Amanoa

Genus of flowering plants
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::summary Genus of flowering plants ::
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Amanoa is a genus from the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1775. It is native to South America, Central America, the West Indies, and tropical Africa.
;Species
- Amanoa almerindae - B Amazonas, V Amazonas
- Amanoa anomala - Ecuador
- Amanoa bracteosa - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia
- Amanoa caribaea - Guadeloupe, Dominica
- Amanoa congesta - Amapá, Pará, Fr Guiana
- Amanoa cupatensis - B Amazonas, V Amazonas
- Amanoa glaucophyla - Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil
- Amanoa gracillima - B Amazonas
- Amanoa guianensis - Trinidad, Central America, N South America
- Amanoa muricata - Bolivia
- Amanoa nanayensis - Loreto
- Amanoa neglecta - French Guiana, Suriname
- Amanoa oblongifolia - from Venezuela to Bolivia
- Amanoa sinuosa - Loreto, B Amazonas
- Amanoa steyermarkii - S Venezuela
- Amanoa strobilacea - W + C Africa
;Formerly included moved to other genera: Bridelia Cleistanthus Gonatogyne Pentabrachion Richeria
- A. acuminata - Cleistanthus acuminatus
- A. boiviniana - Cleistanthus boivinianus
- A. brasiliensis - Gonatogyne brasiliensis
- A. chartacea - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
- A. collina - Cleistanthus collinus
- A. cunninghamii - Cleistanthus cunninghamii
- A. dallachyana - Cleistanthus dallachyanus
- A. divaricata - Richeria grandis
- A. faginea - Bridelia leichhardtii
- A. ferruginea - Cleistanthus ferrugineus
- A. indica Wight 1852 - Cleistanthus patulus
- A. indica Thwaites 1864 - Cleistanthus robustus
- A. indica f. minor Thwaites 1864 - Cleistanthus patulus
- A. laurifolia - Pentabrachion reticulatum
- A. leichhardtii - Bridelia leichhardtii
- A. ovata - Bridelia exaltata
- A. pallida - Cleistanthus pallidus
- A. patula - Cleistanthus patulus
- A. purpurascens - Richeria grandis
- A. racemosa - Richeria grandis
- A. ramiflora - Richeria grandis
- A. robusta Thwaites 1864 not Leal 1951 - Cleistanthus robustus
- A. stenonia - Cleistanthus stenonius
- A. tomentosa - Bridelia tomentosa
References
References
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/362232#page/290/mode/1up Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée. 1775. Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise 1: 256-258, t. 101] short descriptions in Latin, longer descriptions and discussion in French
- [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40011257 Tropicos, ''Amanoa'' Aubl.]
- [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=7549 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
- Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- "Archived copy".
- Hayden, W. J. 1990. Notes on Neotropical ''Amanoa'' (Euphorbiaceae). Brittonia 42(2): 260–270
- Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii,.
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