Paganuccia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, viz. Paganuccia icatuensis, which is endemic to the continental dunes in the São Francisco River basin, Bahia, north-eastern Brazil.[1] Morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses support the recognition of this new genus within the Spermacoce clade of the tribe Spermacoceae.[1]
| Paganuccia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Rubioideae |
| Tribe: | Spermacoceae |
| Genus: | Paganuccia R.M.Salas |
| Species: | P. icatuensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Paganuccia icatuensis R.M.Salas
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References
edit- ^ a b Nuñez Florentin M, Salas RM, Carmo J, Cabral EL, Dessein S, Janssens SB (2022). "Paganuccia icatuensis (Rubiaceae), a new genus and species from Bahia, Brazil, with a key to all the genera of the tribe Spermacoceae in the Americas". Taxon. 71 (3): 630–649. doi:10.1002/tax.12651.