Omphalocarpum
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Omphalocarpum is a genus of plants belonging to the family Sapotaceae
, and was first described in 1800 by Palisot de Beauvois
in Ventenat, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 2: 146. It is synonymous with Ituridendron De Wild. and Vanderystia De Wild. The genus is confined to tropical Africa.
The taxonomy of this genus is a mess. A great many names for purported species have been published, but there are probably only around six species:
Sapotaceae
Sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Ericales. The family includes approximately 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in approximately 65 genera . Distribution is pantropical....
, and was first described in 1800 by Palisot de Beauvois
Palisot de Beauvois
Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois 27 July 1752 Arras - 21 January 1820 Paris, was a French naturalist.Palisot collected insects in Oware, Benin, Saint Domingue, and the United States, during the period 1786 – 1797. Trained as a botanist, Palisot published a significant...
in Ventenat, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 2: 146. It is synonymous with Ituridendron De Wild. and Vanderystia De Wild. The genus is confined to tropical Africa.
The taxonomy of this genus is a mess. A great many names for purported species have been published, but there are probably only around six species:
- Omphalocarpum adolfi-friederici Engl. & K.Krause, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49: 383 (1913).
- O. agglomeratum De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 77 (1926).
- O. ahia A.Chev., Veg. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 5: 244 (1909).
- O. bequaertii De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 4 (1919).
- O. boyankombo De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 81 (1926).
- O. bracteatum Baudon, Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, IV, 7: 29 (1929).
- O. brieyi De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 6 (1919).
- O. busange De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 84 (1926).
- O. cabrae De Wild., Miss. Ém. Laurent 1: 421 (1907).
- O. claessensii De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 86 (1926).
- O. elatum Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 16 (1875).
- O. ghesquierei De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 87 (1926).
- O. lecomteanum Pierre ex Engl., Monogr. Afrik. Pflanzen-Fam. 8: 15 (1904).
- O. lescrauwaetii De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 8 (1919).
- O. lujai De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 10 (1919).
- O. massoko Baudon, Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, IV, 7: 27 (1929).
- O. mayumbense Greves, J. Bot. 65(Suppl. 2): 70 (1927).
- O. mortehanii De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 11 (1919).
- O. ogouense Pierre ex Engl., Monogr. Afrik. Pflanzen-Fam. 8: 17 (1904).
- O. pachysteloides Mildbr. ex Hutch. & Dalziel, Fl. W. Trop. Afr. 2: 13 (1931).
- O. pedicellatum De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 12 (1919).
- O. procerum P.Beauv., Fl. Oware 1: 10 (1805).
- O. sankuruense De Wild., Miss. Ém. Laurent 1: 419 (1907).
- O. sphaerocarpum De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 14 (1919).
- O. strombocarpum Y.B.Harv. & Lovett, Kew Bull. 54: 198 (1999).
- O. torosum Baudon, Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, IV, 7: 30 (1929).
- O. vermoesenii De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 97 (1926).