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091.0000 Family Myristicaceae R.Br.; Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 399 (1810), nom. cons.
21 genera, ca. 500 spp.
Species listed in database: 551
091.0105 Genus Pycnanthus Warb.; Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 1: 99 (1895)
Distribution: Tropical Africa
Species listed in database: 4
species :
Pycnanthus angolensis (Welw.) Warb.; Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 1: 100 (1895)
subspecies :
subsp. angolensis
Distribution: Guinea-Bissau; Guinea; Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast; Togo; Benin; Cameroon; Bioko Isl. [Fernando Poo]; São Tomé; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Congo [Brazzaville]; D. R. Congo [Zaire]; Rwanda; Burundi; South Sudan; Uganda; Tanzania; Angola
22 BEN GNB GUI IVO SIE TOG 23 BIO BUR CMN CON EQG GAB RWA SAO ZAI 24 SSU 25 TAN UGA 26 ANG
Synonyms: hidden
= Myristica angolensis Welw.; Syn. Madeir. Drog. Med. 51 (1862)
= Myristica kombo Baill.; Adansonia 9: 79 (1868)
= Myristica miohu Baill. ex Laness.; Pl. Util. Col. Franç.: 802 (1886), nom. nud.
= Myristica niohne Baill. ex Laness.; Pl. Util. Col. Franç.: 342 (1886), orth. var.
= Myristica niohue Baill.; Adansonia 9: 79 (1868)
= Pycnanthus angolensis (Welw.) Exell; Cat. Vasc. Pl. S. Tomé [Exell] 278 (1944), isonym
= Pycnanthus angolensis var. angolensis (Warb.) M.G.Gilbert & Troupin; Fl. Congo Belge 2: 392 (1951), nom. inval.
= Pycnanthus kombo (Baill.) Warb.; Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 252 (1897)
= Pycnanthus kombo var. angolensis Warb.; Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 257 (1897)
= Pycnanthus mechowii Warb.; Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 261 (1897)
= Pycnanthus niohue (Baill.) Warb.; Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 259 (1897)
= Pycnanthus togoensis Warb.; Vegetationsbilder 4: t. 7 (1906), nomen
= Scyphocephalium kombo (Baill.) Warb.; Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 13: 84 (1895), et in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 1: 98 (1895)
subspecies :
subsp. schweinfurthii (Warb.) Verdc.; Fl. Zambes. 9(2): 38 (1997)
Distribution: Sudan; D. R. Congo [Zaire]; Uganda; Tanzania; Burundi; Zambia
23 BUR ZAI 24 SUD 25 TAN UGA 26 ZAM
Synonyms: hidden
= Pycnanthus schweinfurthii Warb. ex Engl.; Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas [Engler] B: 271 (1895) et C 190 (1895)
= Pycnanthus kombo var. sphaerocarpus Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al.] 6(1): 159 (1909)
species :
Pycnanthus dinklagei Warb.; Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 258 (1897)
Distribution: Sierra Leone; Liberia; Ivory Coast
22 IVO LBR SIE
species :
Pycnanthus marchalianus Ghesq.; Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 28: 229 (1936)
Distribution: Cameroon; Congo [Brazzaville]; Central African Republic; D. R. Congo [Zaire]
23 CAF CMN CON ZAI
Conservation Status: IUCN NT (Cameroon)
species :
Pycnanthus microcephalus (Benth.) Stapf; Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas [Engler] B 271 (1895)
Distribution: Nigeria; Cameroon; Bioko Isl. [Fernando Poo]
22 NGA 23 BIO CMN
Synonyms: hidden
= Myristica microcephala Benth.; Hooker´s Icon. Pl. 13: t. 1261 (1878)
= Pycnanthus kombo var. kamerunensis Warb.; Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 257 (1897)
= Pycnanthus kombo var. microcephalus (Benth.) Warb.; Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 258 (1897)
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