Published May 22, 2024 | Version v1
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Burdachia Endl., Gen. Pl.

  • 1. Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Campus Sudoeste, Quirinópolis, Goiás, Brazil & Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
  • 2. Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Campus Sudoeste, Quirinópolis, Goiás, Brazil
  • 3. Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK

Description

2.2. 1.

BurdachiaA. Juss. ex Endl., Gen. Pl.: 1064. 1840.

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= Tetrapodenia Gleason, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 53: 289. 1926. Type species: Tetrapodenia glandifera Gleason (= Burdachia sphaerocarpa A. Juss.).

Type species.

Burdachia prismatocarpa A. Juss.

Notes.

Burdachia comprises only six currently accepted species (one threatened species; Suppl. material 1) of trees or shrubs endemic to flooded forests of the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela, South America (POWO 2024). For an identification key for all species of Burdachia, see Almeida et al. (2020) for Brazil or Anderson (1981) for the Guyana Highland.

Notes

Published as part of de Almeida, Rafael F., de Morais, Isa L., Alves-Silva, Thais, Antonio-Domingues, Higor & Pellegrini, Marco O. O., 2024, A new classification system and taxonomic synopsis for Malpighiaceae (Malpighiales, Rosids) based on molecular phylogenetics, morphology, palynology, and chemistry, pp. 69-138 in PhytoKeys 242 on pages 69-138, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.242.117469

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Malpighiaceae
Genus
Burdachia
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Malpighiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Endl., Gen. Pl.
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • POWO (2024) Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ [Accessed 26. 11. 2023]
  • Almeida RF, Francener A, Pessoa C, Sebastiani R, Oliveira YR, Amorim AMA, Mamede MCH (2020) Malpighiaceae in Flora do Brasil 2020. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. https://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/floradobrasil/FB155 [Accessed 07. 12. 2023]
  • Anderson WR (1981) Malpighiaceae. In: The Botany of the Guyana Highland – Part XI. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 32: 21–305.