Chonocentrum
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Chonocentrum is a genus of the family Phyllanthaceae described as a genus in 1922.[2][3] It contains only known species, Chonocentrum cyathophorum, native to the State of Amazonas in northwestern Brazil.[1][4]
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Chonocentrum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Phyllanthaceae |
Genus: | Chonocentrum Pierre ex Pax & K.Hoffm. |
Species: | C. cyathophorum |
Binomial name | |
Chonocentrum cyathophorum | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Drypetes cyathophora Müll.Arg. |
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The genus is still not well understood; W. John Hayden has observed that the plant seems have been collected just once, in upper Rio Negro of Brazil in the 1850s,[5] and suggests that it has been misplaced taxonomically.[6][7]