Petersianthus is a genus of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family first described as a genus in 1865 under the name Petersia.[3][4] This turned out to be an illegitimate homonym, meaning that it had already been used by someone else to refer to a very different plant.[5][6] So the name of these species in the Lecythidaceae was changed to Petersianthus.[7][8] It is native to the Philippines and to parts of Africa.[1] The following two species belong to this genus, with the basionyms of both taxa belonging to what is known today as the family Combretaceae.
| Petersianthus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Lecythidaceae |
| Genus: | Petersianthus Merr. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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- species[1]
- Petersianthus macrocarpus (P.Beauv.) Liben (syn. Combretum macrocarpum P.Beauv.[9])[10] - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cabinda, Gabon, Angola
- Petersianthus quadrialatus (Merr.) Merr. (syn. Terminalia quadrialata Merr.[11])[7] - Philippines
References edit
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Tropicos, Petersia rosea Klotzsch
- ^ Welwitsch, Friedrich Martin Josef. 1865. ex Bentham, George, Genera plantarum :ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita 1: 721. in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Petersia Welw. ex Benth.
- ^ Klotzsch, Johann Friedrich. 1861. Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique 168
- ^ Tropicos, Petersia Klotzsch
- ^ a b Merrill, E. D. (1916). "New plants from Samar". The Philippine Journal of Science, Section C. Botany. 11 (4): 200–201.
- ^ Tropicos, Petersianthus Merr.
- ^ Palisot de Beauvois, A. M. F. J. (1807–1820). Flore d’Oware et de Bénin, en Afrique (in French and Latin). Vol. 2. Paris. p. 90.
- ^ Liben, L. (1968). "Petersianthus Merrill versus Combretodendron A. Chev. (Lecythidaceae)". Bulletin du Jardin botanique National de Belgique / Bulletin van de Nationale Plantentuin van België (in French). 38 (2): 207–208. doi:10.2307/3667553. JSTOR 3667553.
- ^ Merrill, E. D. (1909). "New or Noteworthy Philippine plants, VII". The Philippine Journal of Science, Section C. Botany (in English and Latin). 4 (3): 301.
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