Fabaceae

Pentaclethra Benth.

First published in J. Bot. (Hooker) 2: 127 (1840)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Nicaragua to S. Tropical America, W. Tropical Africa to Angola.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Benin, Brazil North, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Venezuela, Zaïre

Introduced into:

Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 30: 360 (1875).
  • —F.T.A. 2: 322

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Legumes of the World Online

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0