Bocagea

Bocagea
Black and white botanical illustration of Bocagea viridis showing a branch with leaves and flowers, as well as floral parts.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Magnoliales
Family:	Annonaceae
Genus:	Bocagea A.St.-Hil.
Species
4, see text.

Bocagea is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae. It comprises four species distributed in Brazil. ^{[1] [2]} Augustin Saint-Hilaire, the French botanist who first formally described the genus, named it after Josephi Mariae de Souza du Bocage, who he said beautifully translated a poem about flowers into Portuguese and illustrated it.

All species of Bocagea are rare and are at least endangered. ^[2]

Description

Bocagea are shrubs or small trees with two rows of petals, 3 interior and 3 exterior, and 6 stamens. ^[3]

Species

There are currently four described species in Bocagea: ^[2]

• Bocagea asymmetrica Mello-Silva & J.C.Lopes
• Bocagea longepedunculata Mart.
• Bocagea moeniana Mello-Silva & J.C.Lopes
• Bocagea viridis A.St.-Hil.

References

1. "Bocagea A.St.-Hil". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
2. Mello-Silva, Renato & Lopes, Jenifer De Carvalho (2020-12-15). "The Brazilian Atlantic Forest genus Bocagea (Annonaceae) revisited, with two new species" . Phytotaxa. 475 (4): 279–288. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.475.4.5. ISSN   1179-3163.
3. Saint-Hilaire, Augustin (1825). Flora Brasiliae meridionalis (in French and Latin). Vol. 1. Paris: Apud A. Belin. p. 41.