Astropanax
{{short description|Genus of Araliaceae plants}}
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Astropanax is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae, native to Tropical Africa, Madagascar, and other Indian Ocean islands.{{cite POWO |id=2969-1 |title=Astropanax Seem. |access-date=8 January 2023 }} It was resurrected from Schefflera in 2017.{{cite journal |title=A synopsis of the Afro-Malagasy species previously included in Schefflera (Araliaceae): Resurrection of the genera Astropanax and Neocussonia |url=https://zenodo.org/record/7182886 |journal=Candollea |year=2017 |volume=72 |issue=2 |page=265 |doi=10.15553/c2017v722a4 |s2cid=90636101 |last1=Lowry |first1=Porter P. |last2=Plunkett |first2=Gregory M. |last3=Gostel |first3=Morgan R. |last4=Frodin |first4=David G. }}
Species
The following species are accepted:
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- Astropanax abyssinicus {{small|(Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Seem.}} – Nigeria and Cameroon, and eastern Africa from Ethiopia to Malawi
- Astropanax barteri {{small|Seem.}} – western and west-central Africa to Angola
- †Astropanax eogetem {{small|Pan, Jacobs, Currano, Gostel, Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Hoffmann, Geier, et Grímsson}} - northwestern Ethiopia. An extinct species from the early Miocene (21.73 Ma) Mush fossil plant assemblages. https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/botlinnean/boaf011/8026643?redirectedFrom=PDFhttps://phys.org/news/2025-03-discovery-species-fossil-tree-picture.html
- Astropanax evrardii {{small|(Bamps) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Astropanax goetzenii {{small|(Harms) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – eastern Africa from Uganda to Zimbabwe
- Astropanax humblotianus {{small|(Drake) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – central Madagascar
- Astropanax kivuensis {{small|(Bamps) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Astropanax mannii {{small|(Hook.f.) Seem.}} – eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, and the Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Astropanax monophyllus {{small|(Baker) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Madagascar
- Astropanax myrianthus {{small|(Baker) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Madagascar and Comoro Islands
- Astropanax polysciadius {{small|(Harms) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Madagascar, Comoro Islands, and eastern Africa from Ethiopia to northern Malawi
- Astropanax procumbens {{small|(Hemsl.) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Seychelles
- Astropanax stolzii {{small|(Harms) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Tanzania (Rungwe District)
- Astropanax tessmannii {{small|(Harms) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Astropanax urostachyus {{small|(Harms) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Tanzania
- Astropanax volkensii {{small|(Harms) Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin}} – Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
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