Aubregrinia | |
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Aubregrinia Taiensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Sapotaceae |
Genus: | Aubregrinia Heine, 1960 |
Species: | A. taiensis |
Binomial name | |
Aubregrinia taiensis | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Aubregrinia is a genus of plant in the family Sapotaceae first described as a genus in 1935. [3] [4] [5]
There is only one known species, Aubregrinia taiensis native to West Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast). [2] [6]
The genus name of Aubregrinia is in honour of both André Aubréville and François Pellegrin (Aubréville, Pellegrin). [7]
The species is listed as critically endangered. [1]
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André Aubréville was a French botanist, professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and a member of the Academy of Sciences. He was the first scientist to introduce the term "desertification" (in his 1949 book: Climats, forêts et désertification de l'Afrique tropicale, and wrote a number of floras of former French colonies.
François Pellegrin was a French botanist, who specialised in the plants of tropical Africa.
Pellegrinia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae.