Genus of flowering plants
Pierreodendron is a genus of plants in the family Simaroubaceae.
Its native range is western tropical Africa and is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo and Zaïre.
It was first published by German botanist Adolf Engler in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. vol.39 on page 575 in 1907.
The genus name of "Pierreodendron" is in honour of Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (1833–1905), a French botanist known for his Asian studies, as well as "dendron" the Greek word for tree.
Hans Peter Nooteboom (1934–2022) in 1962 (published in 1963), took a very broad view of the genus "Quassia" L. and included therein various genera including, "Hannoa" Planch., "Odyendyea" (Pierre) Engl., "Pierreodendron" Engl., "Samadera" Gaertn., "Simaba" Aubl. and also "Simarouba" Aubl. 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.
Known species.
According to Plants of the World Online;
References.
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