''Pentagonia'' is a genus of over 40 species of plants in the Coffee or Gardenia family (
Rubiaceae}.
[ ''Pentagonia'' species are native to ]Central America
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and northern South America
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, and grow in moist tropical forests below 900m.[ The genus is noteworthy for its opposite pairs of huge leaves in a variety of shapes including entire, shallowly or deeply lobed, and even pinnate. These leaves can, in the case of a recently discovered species, be up to four feet (1.2 meters) long not including the six inch (15 cm) petiole, and up to 2.5 feet (76 centimeters) in width.]
Species
, Plants of the World Online
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accepted the following species:[
*'' Pentagonia amazonica'' (Ducke) L.Andersson & Rova
*'' Pentagonia angustifolia'' C.M.Taylor
*'' Pentagonia australis'' C.M.Taylor & Janovec
*'' Pentagonia baumannii'' Cornejo & Rova
*'' Pentagonia bocataurensis'' Dwyer
*'' Pentagonia bonifaziana'' Cornejo
*'' Pentagonia breviloba'' L.Andersson & Rova
*'' Pentagonia carniflora'' Cornejo & Rova
*'' Pentagonia chocoensis'' Cornejo
*'' Pentagonia clementinensis'' Cornejo
*'' Pentagonia costaricensis'' (Standl.) W.C.Burger & C.M.Taylor
*'']Pentagonia donnell-smithii
The ''Pentagonia'' is the collective title of a series of five novels by Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. It was subtitled by its author "''the secret history of Cuba''." The novels were written from the mid-1960s through the late 1980s, and indeed, ...
'' (Standl.) Standl.
*'' Pentagonia dwyeriana'' C.M.Taylor
*'' Pentagonia gambagam'' Hammel & Aguilar
*'' Pentagonia gigantifolia'' Ducke
*'' Pentagonia gomez-lauritoi'' Hammel
*'' Pentagonia grandiflora'' Standl.
*'' Pentagonia gymnopoda'' (Standl.) Standl.
*'' Pentagonia hirsuta'' Standl.
*'' Pentagonia imparipinnata'' Cornejo
*'' Pentagonia involucrata'' C.M.Taylor
*'' Pentagonia lanciloba'' Cornejo
*'' Pentagonia lobata'' C.M.Taylor
*''Pentagonia macrophylla
''Pentagonia macrophylla'' is a species of flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('co ...
'' Benth., syn. ''Pentagonia orthoneura''
*'' Pentagonia magnifica'' K.Krause
*'' Pentagonia microcarpa'' L.Andersson & Rova
*'' Pentagonia nuciformis'' Dwyer
*'' Pentagonia osaensis'' C.M.Taylor
*''Pentagonia osapinnata
The ''Pentagonia'' is the collective title of a series of five novels by Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. It was subtitled by its author "''the secret history of Cuba''." The novels were written from the mid-1960s through the late 1980s, and indeed, ...
'' Aguilar, N.Zamora & Hammel
*'' Pentagonia pachiteana'' Cornejo
*'' Pentagonia parvifolia'' Steyerm.
*'' Pentagonia pinnatifida'' Seem.
*'' Pentagonia rubriflora'' D.R.Simpson
*'' Pentagonia sanblasensis'' C.M.Taylor
*'' Pentagonia spathicalyx'' K.Schum., syn. ''Pentagonia peruviana''
*'' Pentagonia subauriculata'' Standl.
*'' Pentagonia subsessilis'' L.Andersson & Rova
*'' Pentagonia tapacula'' Cornejo
*'' Pentagonia tinajita'' Seem.
*'' Pentagonia villosula'' L.Andersson & Rova
*'' Pentagonia wendlandii'' Hook.f.
*'' Pentagonia williamsii'' Standl.
*'' Pentagonia wurdackii'' Steyerm.
References
Rubiaceae genera
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