Didymocistus

Didymocistus is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1940.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Didymocistus chrysadenius, native to the Loreto region of northeastern Peru, the Amazonas Department of southeastern Colombia, and the State of Amazonas in northwestern Brazil.[3][4][5][6]

Didymocistus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Subfamily: Antidesmatoideae
Tribe: Antidesmateae
Subtribe: Hymenocardiinae
Genus: Didymocistus
Kuhlm.
Species:
D. chrysadenius
Binomial name
Didymocistus chrysadenius

References

  1. Kuhlmann, João Geraldo. 1940. Anais Reunião Sul-Americana de Botânica 3: 82
  2. Tropicos, Didymocistus Kuhlm.
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Tropicos, specimen list for Didymocistus chrysadenius Kuhlm.
  5. Levin, G. A. 1986. Systematic foliar morphology of Phyllanthoideae (Euphorbiaceae). I. Conspectus. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 73(1): 29–85
  6. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i–xl, 1–1286


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