Petersianthus

Petersianthus is a genus of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family first described as a genus in 1865 under the name Petersia.^[3][4] This turned out to be an illegitimate homonym, meaning that it had already been used by someone else to refer to a very different plant.^[5][6] So the name of these species in the Lecythidaceae was changed to Petersianthus.^[7][8] It is native to the Philippines and to parts of Africa.^[1] The following two species belong to this genus, with the basionyms of both taxa belonging to what is known today as the family Combretaceae.

species^[1]

1. Petersianthus macrocarpus [fr] (P.Beauv.) Liben (syn. Combretum macrocarpum P.Beauv.^[9])^[10] - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cabinda, Gabon, Angola
2. Petersianthus quadrialatus (Merr.) Merr. (syn. Terminalia quadrialata Merr.^[11])^[7] - Philippines

Petersianthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Lecythidaceae
Genus:	Petersianthus Merr.
Synonyms[1]
Petersia Welw. ex Benth. & Hook.f. 1865, illegitimate name, not Klotzsch 1861 (syn of Capparis in Capparaceae)[2] Combretodendron A.Chev., not validly published