Chonocentrum
Genus of flowering plants
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Chonocentrum is a genus of the family Phyllanthaceae described as a genus in 1922.[3][4] It contains only known species, Chonocentrum cyathophorum, native to the State of Amazonas in northwestern Brazil.[2][5]
| Chonocentrum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Phyllanthaceae |
| Genus: | Chonocentrum Pierre ex Pax & K.Hoffm. |
| Species: | C. cyathophorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Chonocentrum cyathophorum | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The genus is still not well understood; W. John Hayden has observed that the plant seems have been collected just once, in upper Rio Negro of Brazil in the 1850s,[6] and suggests that it has been misplaced taxonomically.[7][8]