Placodiscus bancoensis

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Placodiscus bancoensis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Placodiscus
Species:
P. bancoensis
Binomial name
Placodiscus bancoensis

Placodiscus bancoensis is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae. It is found in Ivory Coast and Ghana. It is threatened by habitat loss.

It was first described by André Aubréville and François Pellegrin in 1936. [2] [3]

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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.

References

  1. Hawthorne, W. (1998). "Placodiscus bancoensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1998: e.T34814A9890721. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T34814A9890721.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. "Placodiscus bancoensis Aubrév. & Pellegr. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2021-01-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. A. Aubréville; Fr. Pellegrin (January 1938). "Sapindacées et Euphorbiacées nouvelles d'Afrique occidentale". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (in French). 85 (3): 290–293. doi:10.1080/00378941.1938.10834084. ISSN   0037-8941. Wikidata   Q95996834.