| Platytinospora | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Menispermaceae |
| Genus: | Platytinospora (Engl.) Diels |
| Species: | P. buchholzii |
| Binomial name | |
| Platytinospora buchholzii | |
| Synonyms [2] [3] | |
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Platytinospora is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae. The only species is Platytinospora buchholzii. [2]
Its native range is Cameroon. [2]
Terminalia superba, the superb terminalia, limba, or afara (UK), korina (US), frake (Africa), African limba wood, ofram (Ghana), is a large tree in the family Combretaceae, native to tropical western Africa.
Combretum padoides, the thicket bushwillow, occurs in the lowlands of tropical and south-eastern Africa. They grow in a range of habitats from muddy riverbanks to dry rocky hillsides. The mostly opposite oval leaves are carried on long slender branches. The trees or shrubs flower in profusion in mid-summer and the 4-winged fruits reach maturity from late summer to mid winter.
Adenia pechuelii is a species of plant in the family Passifloraceae. It is endemic to Namibia. Its population is made up of mostly small subpopulations, and most of these are affected by collecting, but it is currently considered to be a species of least concern.
Eugenia fernandopoana Engl. & Brehmer, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54:337,1917, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Isolona congolana is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. It has also recently been found in southern Africa.
Isolona dewevrei is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Isolona zenkeri is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is found in Cameroon, The Republic of the Congo and Gabon. Adolf Engler, the German botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Georg August Zenker who collected the sample Engler examined. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Mesogyne insignis is a species of plant in the family Moraceae. It is found in São Tomé and Príncipe and Tanzania.
Polyceratocarpus scheffleri is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.
Tapinanthus preussii is a species of plant in the family Loranthaceae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Uvariastrum zenkeri is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is found in Cameroon and Nigeria. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Vepris heterophylla is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, and Mali. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Xylopia elliotii is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is found in Ghana and possibly Ivory Coast.
Zanthoxylum lindense is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is endemic to Tanzania.
Lasiodiscus fasciculiflorus is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Rhamnaceae that is native to forests of the West African tropics. It occurs from Sierra Leone to Nigeria and the D.R.C. The bark is used in medicine to treat various ailments.
Uvariopsis zenkeri Engl. is a species of flowering shrub in the family Annonaceae endemic to Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
Monodora minor is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Mozambique and Tanzania. Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first formally described the species, do not explicitly explain the specific epithet but it is among the smaller members of the genus which includes species that reach heights of 30-40 meters.
Xylopia staudtii Engl & Diels is a tall tree within the Annonaceae family, it can grow up to 50 meters tall, the tallest height of the African Xylopia trees. It occurs in forest and freshwater swamps in West Africa.
Uvariopsis congensis is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia. Walter Robyns and Jean Ghesquière, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after the Belgian Congo, now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the specimen they examined was collected in the town of Kisantu near the Inkisi River.
