(c) Pedro Nájera Quezada, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Pedro Nájera Quezada · cc-by-nc
Acanthothamnus
Sign in to saveAcanthothamnus is a monotypic genus in the family Celastraceae which contains only the species Acanthothamnus aphyllus. The genus is sometimes known by the unaccepted synonym Scandivepres and its natural range spans central Mexico.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCelastrales
- FamilyCelastraceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- References
Acanthothamnus is a monotypic genus in the family Celastraceae which contains only the species Acanthothamnus aphyllus. The genus is sometimes known by the unaccepted synonym Scandivepres and its natural range spans central Mexico.
==Taxonomy== Acanthothamnus is most closely related to the genera Brexia and Canotia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acanthothamnus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.