Aubregrinia

Aubregrinia is a genus of plant in the family Sapotaceae first described as a genus in 1935.[3][4][5]

Aubregrinia
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
(Aubrév. & Pellegr.) Heine
Synonyms[2]
  • Endotricha Aubrév. & Pellegr. 1935, illegitimate homonym, not Suringar 1870 (probably Gentianaceae)
  • Endotricha taiensis Aubrév. & Pellegr.
  • Pouteria taiensis (Aubrév. & Pellegr.) Baehni

There is only one known species, Aubregrinia taiensis native to West Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast).[2][6]

The species is listed as critically endangered.[1]

References
  1. Assi, A. 1998. Aubregrinia taiensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 20 August 2007.
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Aubréville, André & Pellegrin, François. 1935. Endotricha. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 81: 794
  4. Heine, Hermann Heino. 1960. Kew Bulletin 14: 301
  5. Tropicos, Aubregrinia Heine
  6. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.


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