Sanango is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species, Sanango racemosum. It is a shrub or tree native to Ecuador and Peru.[2]

Sanango
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Subfamily: Sanangoideae
A.Weber, J.L.Clark & Mich.Möller [1]
Genus: Sanango
G.S.Bunting & J.A.Duke (1961)
Species:
S. racemosum
Binomial name
Sanango racemosum
(Ruiz & Pav.) Barringer (1986)
Synonyms[2]
  • Gomara racemosa Ruiz & Pav. (1798)
  • Gomaranthus racemosus (Ruíz & Pav.) Rauschert (1982)
  • Russelia racemosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Wettst. (1894)
  • Sanango durum Bunting & Duke (1961)

The genus was originally placed in family Loganiaceae[3] but has since been variously placed in Scrophulariaceae,[4] Gesneriaceae[5] and Buddlejaceae.[6] As of 2016 it is considered to be the sister genus to the family Gesneriaceae as previously defined, and the family was tentatively enlarged to include the genus, pending a revision of the families included in Lamiales.[7] It has been placed as the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Sanangoideae.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Weber, A.; Middleton, D.J.; Clark, J.L. & Möller, M. (2020), "Keys to the infrafamilial taxa and genera of Gesneriaceae", Rheedea, 30 (1): 5–47, doi:10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.02
  2. ^ a b Sanango racemosum (Ruiz & Pav.) Barringer. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  3. ^ George S. Bunting & James A. Duke (1961), "Sanango: New Amazonian Genus of Loganiaceae", Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 48 (3): 269–274, doi:10.2307/2394954, JSTOR 2394954
  4. ^ Smith, J.F.; Brown, K.D.; Carroll, C.L.; Denton, D.S. (1997), "Familial Placement of Cyrtandromoea, Titanotrichum and Sanango, Three Problematic Genera of the Lamiales", Taxon, 46 (1): 65–74, doi:10.2307/1224292, JSTOR 1224292
  5. ^ The Plant List, retrieved 17 May 2016
  6. ^ The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 17 May 2016
  7. ^ The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 181 (1): 1–20, doi:10.1111/boj.12385