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Petersianthus
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Petersianthus

Baker f.
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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.[2]

species[2]
  1. Petersianthus macrocarpus (P.Beauv.) Liben - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cabinda, Gabon, Angola
  2. Petersianthus quadrialatus (Merr.) Merr. - Philippines

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