Priogymnanthus Explained

Priogymnanthus is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae native to tropical South America, in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Paraguay.[1] [2]

They are deciduous or semi-deciduous trees, closely related to Mesoamerican Chionanthus and Forestiera.[3]

Species

Notes and References

  1. University of Oxford Oleaceae information site: Priogymnanthus
  2. FERNÁNDEZ-ALONSO. JOSÉ LUIS. MORALES MORALES. PAULA ANDREA. 2019-03-27. Priogymnanthus colombianus (Oleaceae), a new species and first record of genus to Colombia. Phytotaxa. 399. 3. 195. 10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.3. 1179-3163. free. 10261/247778. free.
  3. Zedane. Loubab. Hong-Wa. Cynthia. Murienne. Jérôme. Jeziorski. Céline. Baldwin. Bruce G.. Besnard. Guillaume. 2016-01-01. Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. en. 117. 1. 44–57. 10.1111/bij.12509. 1095-8312. free.