Apodiscus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author= Williams, E. |author2= Cheek, M. |date=2019 |title= Apodiscus chevalieri |volume=2019 |page= e.T87754196A87754209 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T87754196A87754209.en |access-date=January 1, 2025}}

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|genus = Apodiscus

|parent_authority = Hutch.

|species = chevalieri

|authority = Hutch.

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Apodiscus is a genus of trees belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1912.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017803|title=Tropicos {{!}} Name - Apodiscus Hutch.|website=www.tropicos.org|access-date=2017-01-10}} It contains only one known species, Apodiscus chevalieri, native to tropical West Africa (Guinea, Liberia and possibly Sierra Leone).{{Cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=13003|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|website=apps.kew.org|access-date=2017-01-10}}Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.