Priogymnanthus P. S. Green

Type species: Priogymnanthus hasslerianus (Chodat) P. S. Green (basionym: Mayepea hassleriana Chod., Linociera hasslerianus (Chod.) Hassler)

Synonyms: none

Distribution: S America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay

Number of species: 4

Description (from Green 1994): Trees, deciduous or semi-deciduous. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, exstipulate, more or less coriaces, without domatia below in the axils of the main veins and the midrib. Inflorescence a racemoid reduced dichasium, up to 11-flowered, shortly pedicellate, flowers and subtending bracts in opposite pairs, the rachis terminated by three flowers. Calyx absent. Corolla 4-lobed, lobes thin, slender, very early caducous. Stamens 4, alternating with the corolla lobes, filaments short, anthers oblong-elliptic, connective not developed into a terminal appendage. Pistil flask-shaped, ovary more or less ovoid, style slender, stigma clearly 2-lobed. Fruit a drupe, ellipsoid or more or less spherical.

Links to species

• Priogymnanthus apertus in Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador
• Priogymnanthus colombianus in Colombia
• Priogymnanthus hasslerianus in Bolivia checklist
• Priogymnanthus saxicolus in Brazil

Species information

• IUCN Red list data
• Priogymnanthus in the GRIN database

References

• Fernandez-Alonso, J. L. & Morales Morales, P. A. 2019. Priogymnanthus colombianus (Oleaceae), a new spcies and first record of genus to Colombia. Phytotaxa 399 (3): 195-202.
• Green, P. S. 1994. A revision of Chionanthus (Oleaceae) in S. America and the description of Priogymnanthus, gen. nov. Kew Bull. 49(2): 261-286.
• Lombardi, J. A. 2015. Priogymnanthus saxicolus (Oleaceae), a new species from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Phytotaxa 221 (1): 66–70.
• Ståhl, B. 1991. Oleaceae, p. 47-56, in: G. Harling & L. Andersson (eds.) Flora of Ecuador 43.

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