Belvisia Desv. 1814, illegitimate homonym, not Mirb. 1802 (Polypodiaceae)
Napoleona P.Beauv., spelling variant
Napoleonaea is a genus of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus in 1804, the same year its namesake (Napoleon Bonaparte) crowned himself Emperor of the French.[2][3] The genus is native to Africa.[1][4][5]
Accepted species[1]
Napoleonaea egertonii Baker f. - Nigeria, Gabon
Napoleonaea gabonensis Liben - Cameroon, Gabon
Napoleonaea gossweileri Baker f. - Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia
Napoleonaea heudelotii A.Juss. - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burkina Faso
Napoleonaea imperialis P.Beauv. - from Benin to Angola
Napoleonaea lutea Baker f. ex Hutch. & Dalziel - Nigeria
Napoleonaea reptans Baker f. ex Hutch. & Dalziel - Nigeria
Napoleonaea septentrionalis Liben - Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon
Napoleonaea talbotii Baker f. - Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo
Napoleonaea vogelii Hook. & Planch. - from Guinea to Angola
^ abcKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1804. Napoléone Impériale 1.
^Tropicos, Napoleonaea P. Beauv.
^Ronde de Craene, L. P. Floral development of Napoleonaea (Lecythidaceae), a deceptively complex flower. Flowers on the Tree of Life. Cambridge University Press. 2011.
^Liben, L. (1971). Révision du genre africain Napoleonaea P. Beauv. (Lecythidaceae). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 41: 363-382.
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Napoleonaea lutea is a species of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found only in Nigeria. It is threatened by habitat loss. World Conservation...
Napoleonaea reptans is a species of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found only in Nigeria. It is threatened by habitat loss. World Conservation...
Napoleonaea egertonii is a species of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found in Cameroon, Gabon, and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical...
Africa. Crateranthus Baker f., incertae sedis according to Takhtajan, Napoleonaea P.Beauv. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm...
a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae, synonym of Napoleonaea Belvisia, a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, synonym of Lepisorus...
from the trunk, and in many ways resembling the Lecythidaceae genus Napoleonaea. It is found in Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, the Central African...
Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests. The larvae feed on Napoleonaea vogelii. They are gregarious. Euriphene amicia amicia (eastern Ivory...
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