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Chiranthodendron
Sign in to saveAlso known as Devil's hand flower, Mexican hand tree
Chiranthodendron is a flowering plant genus in the family Malvaceae. It comprises a single species of tree, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalvales
- FamilyMalvaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Collections
- TEX, BRIT, VT
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Bombacoideae
- Image
- Devils hand tree SF 2017 looking up.jpg
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- taxon name
- Chiranthodendron
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- Chiranthodendron
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Chiranthodendron
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Names
- Description
- Intergeneric hybrid
- Uses
- References
- External links
Chiranthodendron is a flowering plant genus in the family Malvaceae. It comprises a single species of tree, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon.
==Names== The tree is called the '''devil's, monkey's or Mexican hand tree or the hand-flower in English, the árbol de las manitas' (tree of little hands) in Spanish, Canak in Mayan and mācpalxōchitl (palm flower'') in Nahuatl, all on account of its distinctive red flowers, which resemble open human hands. The scientific name means "five-fingered hand-flower tree".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chiranthodendron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.