Sericostachys

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Sericostachys

Species: S. scandens

• S. tomentosa
  (in synonymy by Hassler 2019, accepted by Govaerts 2019)

Name

Sericostachys Gilg & Lopr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 27: 50. 1899.

• Lectotype: Sericostachys scandens Gilg & Lopr.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Africa West Tropical Africa Ivory Coast, Nigeria West-Central Tropical Africa Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Is.: Bioko Isl. (Fernando Po), D.R.Congo (Zaire) Northeast Tropical Africa South Sudan, Ethiopia East Tropical Africa Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda South Tropical Africa Angola, Malawi References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

• Lopriore, G. 1899. Amarantaceae africanae. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 27: 37–64. BHL Reference page. : 50.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Sericostachys. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Dec. 6. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Sericostachys. Published online. Accessed: Dec. 06 2018.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Sericostachys in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jul. 15. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2018. Sericostachys. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 Dec. 2018.