Dactyladenia

Dactyladenia
Dactyladenia cinerea herbarium specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Chrysobalanaceae
Genus:	Dactyladenia Welw.
Type species
Dactyladenia floribunda Welw.
Synonyms
Griffonia Hook.f. 1865, illegitimate homonym, not Baill. 1865 (Fabaceae)

Dactyladenia is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae. They are distributed in western and central Africa, from Liberia to Angola. There are about 31 species.

The genus was first described by Friedrich Welwitsch in his work Apontamentos Fito-geograficos sobre a Flora da Provincia de Angola na Africa Equinocial (1859).

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