{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon = Pierreodendron |authority = Engl. |synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |id=38235-1 |title=''Pierreodendron'' Engl. |access-date=14 November 2021}}</ref> |synonyms = {{species list |Mannia |Hook.f. |Simarubopsis |Engl. }} }}
'''''Pierreodendron''''' is a genus of plants in the family Simaroubaceae.<ref name="POWO"/>
Its native range is western tropical Africa and is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo and Zaïre.<ref name="POWO"/>
It was first published by German botanist Adolf Engler in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. vol.39 on page 575 in 1907.<ref name="POWO"/>
The genus name of ''Pierreodendron'' is in honour of Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (1833–1905), a French botanist known for his Asian studies,<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> as well as ''dendron'' the Greek word for tree.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC |title=The Names of Plants |first=D. |last=Gledhill |edition=4 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-86645-3 |year=2008 |page=382}}</ref>
Hans Peter Nooteboom (1934–2022) in 1962 (published in 1963), took a very broad view of the genus ''Quassia'' {{au|L.}} and included therein various genera including, ''Hannoa'' {{au|Planch.}}, ''Odyendyea'' {{au|(Pierre) Engl.}}, ''Pierreodendron'' {{au|Engl.}}, ''Samadera'' {{au|Gaertn.}}, ''Simaba'' {{au|Aubl.}} and also ''Simarouba'' {{au|Aubl.}}<ref name="noteboom">{{cite journal |last1=Noteboom |first1=Hans Peter |title=Generic delimitation in Simaroubaceae tribus Simaroubeae and a conspectus of the genus ''Quassia'' L. |journal=Blumea |date=1962 |volume=XI |issue=2 |pages=509–28 |url=https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/524782/BLUM1962011002007.pdf |access-date=4 February 2021}}</ref> In 2007, molecular analyses of the Simaroubaceae family (Clayton et al., 2007), suggested the splitting up of genera ''Quassia'' again, with all Nooteboom's synonyms listed above being resurrected as independent genera.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clayton |first1=J.W. |last2=Fernando |first2=E.S. |last3=Soltis |first3=P.S. |last4=Soltis |first4=D.E. |title=Molecular phylogeny of the Tree-of-Heaven family (Simaroubaceae) based on chloroplast and nuclear markers |journal=Int. J. Plant Sci. |date=2007 |volume=168 |issue=9 |pages=1325–1339|doi=10.1086/521796 }}</ref>
==Known species== According to Plants of the World Online;<ref name="POWO"/> * ''Pierreodendron africanum'' <small>(Hook.f.) Little</small> * ''Pierreodendron kerstingii'' <small>(Engl.) Little</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Pierreodendron Category:Sapindales genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Plants described in 1907 Category:Flora of West Tropical Africa Category:Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa Category:Flora of Angola Category:Taxa named by Adolf Engler
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