Acropogon

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|taxon = Acropogon

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Acropogon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia. It contains around 25 species. Its closest relatives are Australian genera: Argyrodendron, Brachychiton and Franciscodendron.Wilkie, P., A. Clark, R. T. Pennington, M. Cheek, C. Bayer, and C. C. Wilcock. (2006) Phylogenetic Relationships within the Subfamily Sterculioideae (Malvaceae/Sterculiaceae-Sterculieae) Using the Chloroplast Gene ndhF." Systematic Botany 31(1): 160–70.

List of species

{{As of|2015|October}}, The Plant List accepted 24 species:{{cite web |title=Search results for Acropogon|work=The Plant List |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Acropogon |accessdate=2015-10-14 }}

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