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Anaxagorea

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Anaxagorea
Anaxagorea dolichocarpa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Anaxagorea
A.St.-Hil.

Anaxagorea is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Anaxagoreoideae (of which it is the only genus) in the family Annonaceae.[1] There are about 26 species, distributed in Central and South America.[2]

Species include:

A. radiata is a little-known species that may belong within A. javanica.[2]

References

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  1. ^ CHATROU, LARS W.; PIRIE, MICHAEL D.; ERKENS, ROY H. J.; COUVREUR, THOMAS L. P.; NEUBIG, KURT M.; ABBOTT, J. RICHARD; MOLS, JOHAN B.; MAAS, JAN W.; SAUNDERS, RICHARD M. K.; CHASE, MARK W. (May 2012). "A new subfamilial and tribal classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (1): 5–40. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01235.x.
  2. ^ a b Scharaschkin, T., & Doyle, J. A. (2005). Phylogeny and historical biogeography of Anaxagorea (Annonaceae) using morphology and non-coding chloroplast sequence data. Systematic Botany, 712-735.