Kingdom Plantae Clade Eudicots Order Gentianales Rank Genus | Clade Angiosperms Clade Asterids Family Rubiaceae | |
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Similar Rogiera, Gonzalagunia, Cosmibuena, Heterophyllaea, Rondeletia | ||
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Arachnothryx is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It contains about 107 species. It is found from Mexico to Peru and in Trinidad.
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Taxonomy
Arachnothryx was named by Jules Émile Planchon in 1849. This generic name is derived from Ancient Greek: arachne or arachnos, "a spider", and thrix or trichos, "hair".
As currently circumscribed, Arachnothryx is paraphyletic over Cuatrecasasiodendron, Gonzalagunia, and Javorkaea. Some authors have included these genera in a broadly defined Rondeletia, but molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that they are more closely related to Guettarda than to Rondeletia.
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