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A revision of African Lecythidaceae

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This is a revision of all the African species of Lecythidaceae s.l. Representatives of all four subfamilies occur in Africa. A total of 50 species are recognised in ten genera. Seven genera are endemic to continental Africa: Brazzeia, Crateranthus, Napoleonaea, Oubanguia, Pierrina, Rhaptopetalum and Scytopetalum and three also occur elsewhere: Barringtonia, Petersianthus and Foetidia. New species are described in Napoleonaea: N. alata, N. beninensis, N. cuneata and N. sapoensis, in Crateranthus: C. cameroonensis, and in Rhaptopetalum: R. cheekii. Keys for identification and distribution maps of all species are provided. The distribution of Lecythidaceae in Africa is predominantly in West Africa from Guinea to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with only a few species occurring in East Africa.

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The first author thanks the late Richard Hanna of the National Tropical Botanical Garden for much help with the library search for the protologues cited here, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for facilities to carry out this work and Scott Mori for reviewing an earlier version of this manuscript.

The second author would like to thank Ehoarn Bidault, Xander van der Burgt, Gilles Dauby, Andriy Kovalchuk, Bart Wusten and Scott Zona for the use of the photos of various Napoleonaea species which they made available for this publication.

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