Aubregrinia Explained

Aubregrinia is a genus of plant in the family Sapotaceae first described as a genus in 1935.^{[1] [2] [3]}

There is only one known species, Aubregrinia taiensis native to West Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast).^{[4] [5]}

The genus name of Aubregrinia is in honour of both André Aubréville and François Pellegrin (Aubréville, Pellegrin).^[6]

The species is listed as critically endangered.

Notes and References

1. Aubréville, André & Pellegrin, François. 1935. Endotricha. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 81: 794
2. Heine, Hermann Heino. 1960. Kew Bulletin 14: 301
3. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40022626 Tropicos, Aubregrinia Heine
4. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=17859 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
5. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
6. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . January 27, 2022.