Oldfieldia

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Oldfieldia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Tribe: Picrodendreae
Subtribe: Paiveusinae
Genus: Oldfieldia
Benth. & Hook.f.
Synonyms [1]
  • PaivaeusaWelw. ex Benth.
  • CecchiaChiov.

Oldfieldia is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, the only member of its subtribe (Paiveusinae). It was described as a genus in 1850. [2] [3]

Oldfieldia is native to Africa. [1]

Species [1]

Oldfieldia is after Richard Albert Kearns Oldfield (R.A.K Oldfield) the British plant collector in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and surgeon on the 1832-1834 Niger River expedition with Laird and Lauder [4]

  1. Oldfieldia africana Benth. & Hook.f. - Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo
  2. Oldfieldia dactylophylla (Welw. ex Oliv.) J.Léonard - Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola
  3. Oldfieldia macrocarpa J.Léonard - Democratic Republic of the Congo
  4. Oldfieldia somalensis (Chiov.) Milne-Redh - Somali, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Bentham, George & Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1850. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 2: 184-186 description in Latin, commentary in English
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Oldfieldia Benth. & Hook. f.
  4. ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants.


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