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Psydrax

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image_caption = Psydrax odorata

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|taxon = Psydrax

|authority = Gaertn.

|type_species = Psydrax dicoccos

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Psydrax is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of trees, shrubs, and a few lianas in the paleotropics.

Taxonomy

The genus was named by Joseph Gaertner in 1788 in his book, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum.{{cite book|author=Gaertner J|year=1788|title=De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum|volume=1|page=125}} Psydrax is a Greek word meaning a blister or bump. Gaertner may have chosen this name to refer to the warty fruit or the pimply seeds of some species.{{cite book|author=Quattrocchi U|year=2000|title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names|edition=3|publisher=CRC Press|location=Baton Rouge, New York, London, Washington DC.|isbn=978-0-8493-2673-8}} The name was hardly ever used after Gaertner proposed it because most authors placed these species in Canthium. Psydrax was reinstated in 1985 and 37 African species were transferred to it from Canthium.{{cite journal|author=Bridson DM|year=1985|title=The reinstatement of Psydrax (Rubiaceae, subfam. Cinchonoideae tribe Vanguerieae) and a revision of the African species|journal=Kew Bulletin|volume=40|issue=4|pages=687–725|doi=10.2307/4109853|jstor=4109853|bibcode=1985KewBu..40..687B }} The monospecific genus Mesoptera was also sunk into Psydrax.{{Cite web|url = http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=125962|title = World Checklist of Selected Plant Families|accessdate = 12 September 2013|publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|last = Govaerts|first = Rafaël|authorlink = Rafaël Govaerts}} Psydrax was shown to be monophyletic in a molecular phylogenetic study.{{cite journal|author=Lantz H, Bremer B|year=2004|title=Phylogeny inferred from morphology and DNA data: characterizing well-supported groups in Vanguerieae (Rubiaceae)|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=146|issue=3|pages=257–283|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2004.00338.x|doi-access=free}} It is closely related to Afrocanthium, Cyclophyllum and Keetia, genera that have been segregated from Canthium.{{cite journal|author=Bridson DM|year=1986|title=The reinstatement of the African genus Keetia (Rubiaceae subfam. Cinchonoideae tribe Vanguerieae)|journal=Kew Bulletin|volume=41|issue=4|pages=965–994|doi=10.2307/4102996|jstor=4102996|bibcode=1986KewBu..41..965B }}

Species

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References

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External links

  • [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/rubiaceae/ World Checklist of Rubiaceae]
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=-cpAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA97 Psydrax] At: [https://books.google.com/books?id=-cpAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA97 De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum] At: Google Books
  • [https://archive.org/stream/defructibusetse00gaergoog#page/n10/mode/1up De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum] at Internet Archive
  • [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=36F51DC1D48A23C7EB1DD138E0CBFE9C?find_family=&find_genus=Psydrax+&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch Psydrax] At: [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantnamesearchpage.do Plant Name Query] At: [http://www.ipni.org/ IPNI]
  • [http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780849326776 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: M-Q] At: [http://www.crcpress.com/ecommerce_product/browse_book_categories.jsf?category=LIF02A Botany & Plant Science] At: [http://www.crcpress.com/ecommerce_product/browse_book_categories.jsf?category=LIF Life Science] At: [http://www.crcpress.com/ CRC Press]
  • [http://www.botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Psydrax Psydrax] At:[http://www.botany.si.edu/ing/ Index Nominum Genericorum] At: [http://www.botany.si.edu/index.htm?references References] At: [http://www.botany.si.edu/index.htm NMNH Department of Botany]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110605221648/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?10063 Psydrax] At: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/gnlist.pl?975 List of Genera] At: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/family.pl?975 Rubiaceae] At: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/famlist.pl List of families] At: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxfam.pl?language=en Families and Genera in GRIN] At: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/queries.pl?language=en Queries] At: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl GRIN taxonomy for plants]

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Category:Rubiaceae genera

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