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Pterygota (plant)
Encyclopedia
Pterygota is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the family
Malvaceae
. In older systems
of classification
, it was placed in Sterculiaceae
, but all members of that family are now in an expanded Malvaceae.
Species include
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Malvaceae
Malvaceae
Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...
. In older systems
History of plant systematics
The history of plant systematics—the biological classification of plants—stretches from the work of ancient Greek to modern evolutionary biologists. As a field of science, plant systematics came into being only slowly, early plant lore usually being treated as part of the study of...
of classification
Biological classification
Biological classification, or scientific classification in biology, is a method to group and categorize organisms by biological type, such as genus or species. Biological classification is part of scientific taxonomy....
, it was placed in Sterculiaceae
Sterculiaceae
Sterculiaceae is a botanical name for a group of flowering plants at the rank of family, which is now considered obsolete. As is true for any botanical name, the circumscription, status and placement of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view...
, but all members of that family are now in an expanded Malvaceae.
Species include
- Pterygota alata ("Buddhas cacao", oilseed, Afghanistan)
- Pterygota bequaertiiPterygota bequaertiiPterygota bequaertii is a species of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family.It is found in Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, and Nigeria.It is threatened by exploitation as a timber tree....
- Pterygota macrocarpaPterygota macrocarpaPterygota macrocarpa is a species of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family.It is found in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Hawthorne, W. 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....