''Anthodiscus'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
in family
Caryocaraceae
Caryocaraceae ( syn. Rhizobolaceae DC.) is a small family of flowering plants consisting of two genera with 26 species. The family is native to tropical regions of Central and South America, as well as the West Indies
The West Indies is ...
described as a genus in 1818.
The entire genus is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref>[Prance, G. T. 1987. An update on the taxonomy and distribution of the Caryocaraceae. Opera Botanica 92: 179–183]
;Species[
# '' Anthodiscus amazonicus'' Gleason & A.C.Sm. - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador
# '' Anthodiscus chocoensis'' Prance - Colombia
# '' Anthodiscus fragrans'' Sleumer - Ecuador
# '' Anthodiscus klugii'' Standl. ex Prance - Ecuador, N Peru
# '' Anthodiscus mazarunensis'' Gilly - Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela
# '' Anthodiscus montanus'' Gleason - Colombia
# '' Anthodiscus obovatus'' Benth. ex Wittm. - Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
# '' Anthodiscus peruanus'' Baill. - Ecuador, N Peru
# '' Anthodiscus pilosus'' Ducke - Colombia, N Peru
# '' Anthodiscus trifoliatus'' G.Mey. - Guyana
]
References
Malpighiales genera
Flora of South America
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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