Afrolicania is a genus of plant in family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1921.[3][4] It contains only one known species, Afrolicania elaeosperma, native to western and central Africa from Liberia to the Republic of the Congo.[1][2]

Afrolicania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Chrysobalanaceae
Genus: Afrolicania
Mildbr.
Species:
A. elaeosperma
Binomial name
Afrolicania elaeosperma
Synonyms[2]

Licania elaeosperma (Mildbr.) Prance & F.White

References

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  1. ^ a b IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group.; Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). (2022). "Afrolicania elaeosperma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T204677883A204792896. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T204677883A204792896.en.
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Mildbraed, Gottfried Wilhelm Johannes. 1921. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 7: 483–485 descriptions in Latin, commentary and geographic information in German
  4. ^ Tropicos, Afrolicania Mildbr.