Global InformationMischogyne information
| Mischogyne | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Subfamily: | Annonoideae |
| Tribe: | Monodoreae |
| Genus: | Mischogyne Exell |
Mischogyne is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae. It comprises five species distributed in Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1] Arthur Wallis Exell the British botanist who first formally described the genus named it after the stalks (μίσχος, míschos, in Greek) that bears its reproductive (γυνή, gunḗ, in Greek) structures.[2][3]
- ^ "Mischogyne Exell". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ^ Gosline, George; Marshall, Andrew R.; Larridon, Isabel (2019). "Revision and new species of the African genus Mischogyne (Annonaceae)" (PDF). Kew Bulletin. 74 (2). doi:10.1007/s12225-019-9804-7. ISSN 0075-5974. S2CID 195773945.
- ^ Exell, A.W. (1932). "Mr. John Gossweiler's plants from Angola and Portuguese Congo. Dicotyledones: Polypetalae". Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 70 (Supplement 1): 213.