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Englerophytum
Sign in to saveEnglerophytum is a group of trees in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1914.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilySapotaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 121
- With media
- 49
- Family
- Sapotaceae
- Collections
- MO, A
- Recorded in
- Tanzania, Cameroon, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Guinea, Gabon
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Englerophytum is a group of trees in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1914.
Englerophytum consists primarily of trees. Their leaves are leathery with dense appressed hairs on the undersides. The genus is widespread across tropical and southern Africa. It is found in the countries of Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa ( KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province and Northern Provinces) Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Englerophytum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.