Pradosia

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Pradosia
Pradosia lactescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Subfamily: Chrysophylloideae
Genus: Pradosia
Liais
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Pouteria section Pradosia (Liais) Eyma
  • Pometia Vell. 1825, illegitimate homonym, not J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. 1775
  • Glycoxylon Ducke
  • Neopometia Aubrév.

Pradosia is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1872.[3][1]

Most of the species of Pradosia are native to Central and South America, but a few occur in Trinidad and in tropical Africa.[2]

Species[2]
  1. †Pradosia argentea (Kunth) T.D.Penn. – Peru
  2. Pradosia atroviolacea Ducke – Costa Rica to Acre
  3. Pradosia beardii (Monach.) T.D.Penn. – Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana
  4. Pradosia brevipes (Pierre) T.D.Penn. – Brazil, Paraguay
  5. Pradosia caracasana (Pittier) T.D.Penn – Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia
  6. Pradosia cochlearia (Lecomte) T.D.Penn. – French Guiana, N Brazil
  7. Pradosia colombiana (Standl.) T.D.Penn. ex T.J.Ayers & Boufford – Venezuela, Colombia
  8. Pradosia cuatrecasasii (Aubrév.) T.D.Penn. – Colombia
  9. Pradosia decipiens Ducke – Amazonas
  10. †Pradosia glaziovii (Pierre) T.D.Penn. – Rio de Janeiro
  11. Pradosia granulosa Pires & T.D.Penn. – Pará, Maranhão
  12. Pradosia grisebachii (Pierre) T.D.Penn. – Trinidad, Venezuela
  13. Pradosia huberi (Ducke) Ducke – French Guiana, Pará
  14. Pradosia kuhlmannii Toledo – Rio de Janeiro
  15. Pradosia lactescens (Vell.) Radlk. – Brazil
  16. Pradosia lahoziana Terra-Araujo – Amazonas
  17. Pradosia longipedicellata Alves-Araújo & M.Alves – Bahia
  18. Pradosia montana T.D.Penn. – Ecuador
  19. †Pradosia mutisii Cronquist – Colombia, Ecuador
  20. Pradosia ptychandra (Eyma) T.D.Penn. – Suriname, French Guiana
  21. Pradosia schomburgkiana (A.DC.) Cronquist – Northern South America
  22. Pradosia spinosa Ewango & Breteler – Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  23. Pradosia subverticillata Ducke – Amazonas, Pará
  24. Pradosia surinamensis (Eyma) T.D.Penn. – Venezuela, Guianas, Northern Brazil
  25. Pradosia verrucosa Ducke – Pernambuco
  26. Pradosia verticillata Ducke – Amazonas, French Guiana

References[edit]

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  1. ^ a b Tropicos, Pradosia Liais
  2. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Liais, Emmanuel. 1872. Climats Geologies, Faune et Geographie Botanique du Bresil 614


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