| Bocagea | |
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| Black and white botanical illustration of Bocagea viridis showing a branch with leaves and flowers, as well as floral parts. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Genus: | Bocagea A.St.-Hil. |
| Species | |
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4, see text. | |
Bocagea is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae. It comprises four species distributed in Brazil.12 Augustin Saint-Hilaire, the French botanist who first formally described the genus, named it after Josephi Mariae de Souza du Bocage, who he said beautifully translated a poem about flowers into Portuguese and illustrated it.
All species of Bocagea are rare and are at least endangered.2
Description
Bocagea are shrubs or small trees with two rows of petals, 3 interior and 3 exterior, and 6 stamens.3
Species
There are currently four described species in Bocagea:2
- Bocagea asymmetrica Mello-Silva & J.C.Lopes
- Bocagea longepedunculata Mart.
- Bocagea moeniana Mello-Silva & J.C.Lopes
- Bocagea viridis A.St.-Hil.
References
References
- "Bocagea A.St.-Hil". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
- Mello-Silva, Renato & Lopes, Jenifer De Carvalho (2020-12-15). "The Brazilian Atlantic Forest genus Bocagea (Annonaceae) revisited, with two new species". Phytotaxa. 475 (4): 279–288. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.475.4.5. ISSN 1179-3163.
- Saint-Hilaire, Augustin (1825). Flora Brasiliae meridionalis (in French and Latin). Vol. 1. Paris: Apud A. Belin. p. 41.